National Telecom and Information Technology Security Board (NTISB) haswarned the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) that government jobadvertisement-related emails are being sent to the general public byhackers with the intent to obtain personal information and a possiblecyberattack on government organizations.
In this connection, the tax regulator received a warning from the NTISB onFriday.
According to the communication of the NTISB to the government departments,these emails contain biodata form as attachments with embeddeddata-stealing malware.
On downloading an email attachment, an individual’s computer/ device iscompromised and the hacker gains access to all the stored data/ files.Citizens are advised to refrain from downloading attachments or clickinglinks sent through such enticing emails in order to protect their personalinformation.
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A phishing email with the subject “Govt Jobs/ Recruitment” which contains amalicious Word document as an attachment is being spread by Hackers. Ondownloading the attachment: a .malware runs in the background. It is aspear-phishing attack conducted by Confucius APT Group to gatherinformation at a large scale through a Biodata form.
Above in view, a Cyber Alert/advisory has been issued. All federal andprovincial departments/ ministries are requested to take appropriatemeasures while advertising jobs on their portals, it added.
