By Raji Unnikrishnan
PEOPLE have been warned against responding to suspicious messages on their mobile phones or computers which could turn the gadgets into a ‘playground’ for hackers.
Experts have issued the alert after the Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) last week revealed that cyber criminals were sending bogus messages about Covid-19 booster shots to people in an attempt to steal personal and financial information.
The GDN earlier reported that one such message urges users to register for the jab and “reply with an ‘R’, while another referred to the Covid-19 application BeAware, and offers people a bogus link ‘to update their personal information’.
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