“The government issues alerts and advisories regarding the latest cyber threats and is operating an automated cyber threat exchange platform for proactively collecting, analysing, and sharing tailored alerts with organisations across sectors for proactive threat mitigation actions, Union Minister of State for Home, Ajay Kumar Mishra, informed the Lok Sabha.

The minister said that the government has issued guidelines to the chief information security officers (CISOs) regarding their key roles and responsibilities for securing applications/infrastructure and compliance. All government websites and applications are audited with respect to cyber security prior to their hosting, reported IANS.

In another recent incident of cybercrime, Chandigarh Police said filed an FIR in response to a complaint from a lady in Sector 28 who claimed that a cyber fraudster had defrauded her of Rs 3.25 lakh after tricking her into using a marriage website as a trap. The incident happened in 2021.

The lady created a profile on a matrimonial website, and a guy who claimed to be a physiotherapist living in the USA contacted her after finding her information online, according to the police. Details indicate that the woman subsequently began calling the suspect, who gave his name Amit Trivedi.

Later, the man allegedly informed the woman that he would be visiting India to meet with her in order to get married, The Indian Express reported.

Later, the woman reported to the police that she had received a call claiming to be from the airport authorities from an unidentified person. The caller allegedly went on to inform the woman that they had detained a man who had arrived by plane from the Mumbai airport and was carrying a significant amount of American currency.

They warned the woman that her friend would be apprehended if she didn’t pay a tax of Rs 3.25 lakh by September 1 of 2021. As a result, the woman paid the amount from her account and then realised she had been duped.