Nasscom has advised IT companies to strengthen cybersecurity frameworks and review business continuity plans amid rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Firms are enhancing contingency measures, monitoring cyber threats and ensuring employee safety while maintaining uninterrupted global service delivery.
The scammers offered the victim an increase in his credit card limit to ₹2 lakh and provided a link to proceed. They then sent a file named “PM KISAN YOJNAx3.APK” via WhatsApp, instructing the victim to install the app.
According to reports, the woman, a trained nurse, received a call from a stranger on July 27 saying that she was selected for the post of staff nurse in the District Medical and Health Department and a fake interview letter was also sent to her.
On the pretext of supplying the data, the fraudster on different instances collected Rs. 3.43 lakh through online transfer and later switched off his mobile phone.
Foreign malicious cyber actors aim to harm the US economy through the theft of intellectual property and sensitive data and to threaten national security by targeting the country's critical infrastructure for malicious cyber-enabled activities
