India, May 27 -- The spread of the novel COVID19 pandemic is providing cyber criminals with novel methods to orchestrate crimes. As governments and citizens around the world use innovative tools to fight the spread of the disease, cyber criminals have found a global opportunity to attack these very tools for their own gain. The latest being the SMS-based text message scam.

Efforts to keep citizens informed with authentic information

There is a lot of emphasis on providing citizens with authentic information. This is with a view to arrest the spread of disinformation and prevent citizens from falling prey to the tactics that cyber criminals use. To keep the citizens informed of the on-ground activities and a slew of initiatives being tak...