The new disaster on the stock market, the risk of cyber thieves

(Commerce Rep) Mumbai, Apr 10 Apr 2020, Friday

These days of lockdown as a result of the Corona epidemic, as many employees are using their personal mobile phones, tabs and personal laptops to increase workflow home, as well as beware of rising cyber-attacks worldwide, the country's leading stock market on the Bombay Stock Exchange (Bombay Stock Exchange). - told the intermediaries.

It is worth mentioning that at present, many companies and organizations are urging employees for work from home due to the 7-day lockdown, due to which employees are doing office work online using their mobile phones and tabs as well as personal laptops. So with the increased use of digital devices in the present day, it is possible that many operations are taking place under remote monitoring mode. The exchange says cybercriminals have started targeting such users and commuting devices.

BSE has cautioned market intermediaries of such hazards and issued a number of advisories to keep their personal mobile phones safe and secure. In a related circular, the Exchange issued strict compliance with the Cyber ​​Security Guidelines issued by the Director of Capital Markets to all Market Infrastructure Institutions, Markets Intermediaries, Mutual Funds and other SEBI regulated units and followed the best practices and certi ન્સી cates. Are instructed to follow.

In addition, the BSE has asked the concerned authorities and the Exchange to report the incident in the event of any incident. In addition, Work From Home employees and relevant vendor staff have been advised to work from a private location and use a reliable 3G or forgery connection instead of privacy screens and unreliable Wi-Fi hotspots if operating from a public place. It is also reported to change the default passwords on the home Wi-Fi router to prevent the cyber hacker from targeting the home network.

In addition all personal computing devices are advised to protect mobile phones, tabs, desktops and laptops with up-to-date antivirus and latest signature from malware protection software. It is worth mentioning that most of the cyber-attack websites are through phishing emails, malicious messages and social and malicious apps. It is advisable not to click on links and attachments that are suspicious.

It is worth noting here that many unique files related to the transmission of corona virus are circulating on the web, many of which are infected with file-encrypted malware such as malvolant infections. Cybercriminals are stealing financial statistics and other sensitive information from such attacks and malware, personally and by targeting organizations worldwide.