Author: Pratima Pradhan

The 3rd edition of the National Cybersecurity Week 2023 is being conducted as a part of the Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is designated in October by many countries across the world. To raise awareness and build capacity in cybersecurity, Capture the Flag Challenge was conducted in three colleges: Gyalposhing College of IT, College of Science & Technology and Jigme Namgyel Engineering College from 16-17 October. CyberHygiene awareness, Cyber Safety program for women and children by Promptech India was also conducted at GovTech and Royal Thimphu College previously. In addition, various daily social media updates on Cyber Hygiene has been...

The Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team (BtCIRT), a Government Technology Agency, would like to earnestly request the general public to avoid falling victim to phishing emails using Adobe InDesign. Numerous Cyber Threat Intelligence agencies have uncovered and are warning about a recent surge in phishing attacks leveraging Adobe InDesign, a well-known and trusted document publishing system. According to a report from Barracuda, a cloud-first security solutions provider, there has been a nearly 30-fold increase since October in emails containing Adobe InDesign links. These emails carry legitimate brand logos and lure users into logging in to view or download documents,...

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The annual report covers all the major activities, initiatives and incidents handled by the Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team (BtCIRT) for the 2021-2022 financial year (FY), from July 2021 till June 2022. In 2021, although the COVID pandemic continued and the nation experienced a few lock downs and restrictions, BtCIRT was able to meet some critical targets for the year. The country’s first ever “Cybersecurity Week” was successfully conducted. Articles and alerts on latest cyber trends, threats, vulnerabilities and best practices were also published. Majority of the workshops and training were carried out online due to the pandemic....