ITSSL warns about a CYBER ATTACK

Information Technology Society of Sri Lanka (ITSSL) issued a statement; warning the public about possible cyberattacks during the Coronavirus pandemic.
                               

                                             

ITSSL chairman, Rajeev Yasiru Mathews informed that an increment of cyber-attacks using the COVID-19 situation can be seen these days. A leading cybersecurity institute was able to identify more than 40,000 COVID-19 situation related to cyber threats worldwide. These identified unsafe websites were designed to retrieve personal data and saved passwords from users and are able to install malware programs into end-user devices.

These type of cyber-crimes shows a significant increment in Sri Lanka. ITSSL had already received several complaints about websites, attempting to obtain personal data from users by using false information about give always and free distributions of highly demanded goods such as face masks and hand sanitizers.

Also, an email headlined as “free COVID-19 testing” was identified as an attempt to installing a malicious software named Trickbot into the receiver’s devices. ITSSL urges the public not to open these types of harmful emails and messages.