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Phishing denotes tothe fraud when an attacker,
‘masquerading as a trusted entity, treks a victim into clicking
cil inks to steal passwords, login credentials and on
password (OTP)
Using these phishing websites, the advisory elaborated,
‘malicious actors" ae collecting sensitive information of the
customers such as internet banking credentials, mobile
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Itsaia tne phishing attacks have been seen to be triggered
through Shes containing links that end with
ngrokiofobank
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Please Re KYC Verification Update click here link
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credentials, the attacker generates OTP for 2FA or two factor
authentication which is delivered to the victim's hone
number,
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the attacker captures” it said
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advisory said
‘The cyber security agency has suggested some “best
practices to nip these attacks in the bud, the most
important being: “Look for suspicious numbers that don‘
Ieoklike real mobile phone numbers as scammers often
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towards shortened URLs, such as these involving bitvand
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URLs (if possible) to see the full website domain which they
are visting or use a URL checker that will allow the user to
enter short URL and view the full URL,’ said
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Some other counter-measures stated in the advisory are the
ofen-repeated principles that are advised for safe browsing
and accessing the internet.
“Install and maintain updated antivirus and anti-spyware
software, fil based
ring tools (anti-virus and cont
Fitering), firewall, and fikering services"
Update spam filters with latest spar mail contents, it sai.
“Customers should report any unusual activity in their
account immediately to the respective bani it said
Phishing websites and suspicious messages should be
reporte
the CERT-Inat incident@cert-inorgin and
respective banks with the relevant details for taking further
appropriate actions, the advisory concluded,
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