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Recent trends show an increase in incidents where scammers attack and fraudulently take over social media accounts of high-profile persons and government organisations to perpetrate misinformation campaigns and scams, India's federal cyber security agency said in a latest advisory...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said the security of such accounts was paramount to protect reputations as it also suggested some measures to check compromise of social media accounts, including usage of multi-factor authentication tools...
The security of social media accounts is paramount to prevent misuse, protect reputations and ensure the dissemination of authentic information, the advisory, accessed by PTI, said.. CERT-In is the national technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guard the Indian internet space...
Recent trends have shown an increase in incidents where scammers and threat actors take over social media accounts of high-profile personalities, official government accounts and enterprise accounts, it said...
The ability of these actors to broadcast misleading or harmful content to large audiences underscores the critical need for robust security measures for social media accounts, it said.. Cyber attack on the servers of AIIMS, country's premier medical institution in Delhi, in 2022; hacking the official X handle of the NDRF, and similar unsuccessful attempts foiled by Indian agencies to attack the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) servers in 2022 and the G-20 website in 2023 are some of the recent cases in example...
