Govt warns against large-scale phishing attacks using COVID-19 as bait

Amidst massive cyber attack in many countries including Australia for the past two days, Indian Cyber security agency has warned individual and business establishments about the possible large scale phishing campaign in the guise of free COVID-19 tests.

The government’s cyber security agency – Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in its advisory said that in the guise of a free COVID-19 test, cyber warriors could carry out massive phishing campaign on June 21, 2020 with cyber attackers using email IDs such as “ncov2019@gov.in”.

The attackers are likely to send malicious emails under the pretext of local authorities or government agencies that are in charge of dispensing government-funded COVID-19 support initiatives.