Be careful… Hackers have their eyes on the passwords of government employees, government issues warning

New Delhi: Cases of phishing scams are increasing rapidly across the country. Hackers are devising new tricks every day. Now hackers are targeting government employees through phishing scams. Recently NIC has revealed a new phishing scam. NIC has warned government employees that now hackers are trying to steal the logins of government officials.

How hackers are trapping government employees

Hackers are fooling people by creating fake websites of the Ministry of Defence. These emails contain an attachment titled ‘Hackers Targeted Defence Personnel in Mass Cyber ​​Attack’ along with a link. On clicking this link, a fake website resembling that of the Ministry of Defence opens and when the employee tries to login to it, the hackers steal his/her login password.

Two fake URLs were identified

NIC has identified two fake URLs ‘mod.gov.in.aboutcase.nl/publications.html’ and ‘mod.gov.in.army.aboutcase.nl/publications.html’. These websites have been created by copying the real Defence Ministry website (www.mod.gov.in) to make people believe that these are genuine. When users enter their NIC login and password on these fake websites, they are redirected to login-error.html page. Meanwhile, hackers steal their login and password.

Fake website of Defence Ministry created

NIC says that both these phishing URLs are imitating the Ministry of Defense and the main objective of this phishing campaign is to steal the NIC credentials of government officials so that they can steal sensitive documents related to the Government of India. NIC has instructed government employees to immediately delete any such suspicious email. If they have accidentally clicked on any such link, they should immediately disconnect their computer from the Internet, change their password.

Along with this, government officials have also been warned to be cautious of link shortening technologies like Bit.Ly and ignore emails coming from untrusted sources, especially emails with spelling or grammatical mistakes. Let us tell you that a similar phishing attempt was seen in June-July, in which the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was imitated.