Cyber security threats are growing and can affect anyone, and can have a greater impact on social well being and also on the overall country’s economy. During the pandemic there were numerous cases of victims of scams and phishing incidents that have led to financial losses for the victims. Therefore, BtCIRT is initiating a week-long cybersecurity awareness campaign to observe the country’s first ever Cyber Security Week from 20 – 25 December, 2021. It is expected to provide a bigger window of opportunity to create cybersecurity awareness among the general public, educate and inspire students and upskill ICT Professionals....
Google Releases Security Update
Google has released Chrome version 96.0.4664.45 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. Therefore, BtCIRT recommended users and administrators to review the Chrome Release Note and apply the necessary updates as soon as possible....
Linux Forensics Training (Virtual)
A week long training on Linux Forensics for System Administrators was conducted from 17th to 21st May,2021 in collaboration with APNIC. Thank you Mr Adli Wahid for making it happen and Thank you to all the participants for making the online training fruitful. …...
Phishing Alert
The Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team (BtCIRT), Department of IT and Telecom (DITT) would like to earnestly request the general public that there is a new phishing site (for harvesting login credentials) which is a cloned page of the login page of the “Citizens services website”. Fake/Cloned Webpage: Genuine webpage: Notice the difference between the valid and the fake url as shown in the figures above. It has come to the notice of BtCIRT of a phishing email which originated from a private email id (gmail) whereby the message indicates the Royal Government of Bhutan has started COVID-19 vaccination...
WhatsApp OTP Scam
In this pandemic, use of instant messaging applications has seen a spike and WhatsApp is one of the platforms which is being used by almost all netizens, worldwide. As expected it is also being targeted by hackers, since many don’t follow the security best practices as advised by platform providers. What is the WhatsApp OTP scam? BtCIRT has recently come to know of a WhatsApp OTP scam or hack where the victim receives a message from a contact asking to forward the One Time Password (OTP) that the victim will receive, implying that they are having issues with receiving...