State Bank of India (SBI) has issued a warning to its account holders to beware of imminent cyber attack. Warning customers about the attack, India’s largest lender tweeted, “Dhyan! It has come to our attention that a cyber attack is going to happen in major cities of India. Please come from [email protected] Prevent yourself from clicking on email. Free COVID-19 trial with a subject line. “
“We have received a worrying report from the CERT that a phishing attack is being carried out by cyber criminals using suspicious emails – [email protected] from 21 June.”
“Cybercriminals are claiming to have 2 million personal / civilian email IDs and are planning to send emails from residents of the following cities for personal details with the subject” Free COVID-19 Trial “: Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad. ”Added the consultant.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) warned on Sunday that in a major phishing attack, millions of Indians could be targeted by fake emails, social media posts or text messages, which spread across India for free Kovid-19 Promises testing.
What to do if you get such malicious emails
- Do not open attachments in unsolicited emails, even if they come from people in your contact list and never click on the URL included in an unsolicited email.
- If this seems to be an actual URL, then close the email and go directly to the organization’s website through a browser and check if such information has been given.
- Take care when opening an e-mail attachment even if an attachment is required, and let the sender know.
- Scan and remove suspicious e-mail attachments; Ensure that the scanned attachment is its “correct file type” (ie the extension matches the file header).
- Be careful about spelling errors in phishing domains, emails, websites, and those sending unfamiliar emails.
- Beware of e-mails, Kovid-19 links providing special offers such as tests, help, win prizes, prizes, cashback offers. “
- Check the integrity of the URL before providing logging credentials or clicking on the link.
- Do not submit personal information to unknown and unfamiliar websites.
- Consider using a safe browsing tool, a filtering tool, in your anti-virus, firewall and filtering services.
- Update spam filter with latest spam mail content. Any unusual activity or attack should be reported immediately to @ cert-in.org.in.
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