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The leaked information includes names, phone numbers, addresses, Aadhaar, and passport details of Aadhaar registered users, which are available for sale online.
Earlier, reports broke out of an alleged data breach in CoWIN, which is a government platform designed during the Covid pandemic for vaccination registration.
Vi acknowledged a flaw in its billing communication system, though it fixed the issue "immediately". But the company denies allegations of a data breach.
An email with the attached Google Form, (Source: Proofpoint) Fraudsters are using Google Forms to target retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and manufacturing companies in an apparent reconnaissance campaign to identify targets for follow-up business email compromise attack. "Unfortunately, Google services are often abused for malware distribution, credential phishing and, in this case, as part of email fraud. Google is often a trusted source in many organizations, so threat actors leverage that goodwill for their attacks," says Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detecti...
Researchers at the security firm Proofpoint are tracking several fraud schemes leveraging COVID-19 vaccine-themed emails. The schemes include business email compromise scams, messages with malicious attachments used to deliver malware and phishing emails designed to harvest credentials - including usernames and passwords for Microsoft Office 365, according to Proofpoint. The Proofpoint report notes social engineering attacks leveraging vaccine themes have increased over the last two months as pharmaceutical companies have ramped up production (see: "Many actors across most geographies are co...