NEW DELHI: A senior corporate executive was on a video conference call with his top management using the popular Zoom app while working from home due to the coronavirus lockdown. Minutes after the meeting started, the screen was hacked, and pornographic content started playing across the screens of those who were on the call, prompting them to abruptly terminate the call.
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Similarly, as PM Narendra Modi sought donations under the PM-CARES fund, more than a dozen similar-sounding UPI IDs cropped up, luring people to donate there. The fake IDs included pmcares@pnb, pmcares@hdfcbank, pmcare@yesbank, pmcare@ybl, pmcare@upi, pmcare@sbi and pmcare@icici. The issue was sorted out, but not before the intervention of the home ministry, CERT-in — the country’s security watchdog, and private experts.
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Similarly, as PM Narendra Modi sought donations under the PM-CARES fund, more than a dozen similar-sounding UPI IDs cropped up, luring people to donate there. The fake IDs included pmcares@pnb, pmcares@hdfcbank, pmcare@yesbank, pmcare@ybl, pmcare@upi, pmcare@sbi and pmcare@icici. The issue was sorted out, but not before the intervention of the home ministry, CERT-in — the country’s security watchdog, and private experts.
This is not all. Messages and websites are coming up by the dozens, promising to inform people about those suffering from coronavirus “near your location”, or providing “Covid-19 heatmaps”. Also, many are promising to help one avail unemployment funds. Sent from seemingly authorised sources, most of these fakes end up hacking, and even taking…
