{"id":15640,"date":"2020-05-24T01:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15640"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:46:23","slug":"cbi-alerts-states-u-t-s-and-central-agencies-to-malicious-software-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cbi-alerts-states-u-t-s-and-central-agencies-to-malicious-software-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI alerts States, U.T.s and Central agencies to malicious software threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the central agencies on a malicious software named Cerberus threat that is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Cerberus:<\/strong>It is a banking Trojan which is primarily used to steal financial data such as credit card numbers.<\/li><li>It uses a phishing method to send SMS to lure a user to download the link containing the malicious software.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Trojan horse:<\/strong> It is a malware that disguises itself as a normal file or program to trick users into downloading and installing malware.<\/li><li><strong>Phishing: <\/strong>It is a method in which users are contacted by email, telephone or text message by posing as a legitimate institution to lure into providing sensitive data such as personal information, banking and credit card details.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the central agencies on a malicious software named Cerberus threat that is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Facts: Cerberus:It is a banking Trojan which is primarily used to steal financial data such as credit card numbers. It uses a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cbi-alerts-states-u-t-s-and-central-agencies-to-malicious-software-threat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBI alerts States, U.T.s and Central agencies to malicious software threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[848,2938,2939],"class_list":["post-15640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-cbi","tag-cerberus","tag-trojan-horse","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704808090},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}