India, June 22 -- CERT-In has issued a warning to individuals citizens of India, as well as to small, medium and large scale enterprises about a massive cyberattack by malicious actors. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India says that the phishing campaign is expected to use malicious emails in the garb of local authorities in-charge of dispensing government-funded COVID-19 support initiatives.

The emails have been designed to trick users into either downloading spam files or take them to dubious websites where they will be asked to enter their personal details. "The malicious actors are claiming to have 2 million individual/citizen email IDs and are planning to ...