{"id":1027428,"date":"2026-08-08T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027428"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:03:04","slug":"boss-scam-whatsapp-malware-targeting-finance-professionals-firms-warns-cyber-crime-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/boss-scam-whatsapp-malware-targeting-finance-professionals-firms-warns-cyber-crime-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Boss Scam&#8217;: WhatsApp malware targeting finance professionals &amp; firms, warns cyber crime centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on Friday issued a fresh warning over a surge in cyber fraud cases involving the takeover of WhatsApp accounts through malicious files disguised as account statements and regulatory communications. <\/p>\n<p>According to the I4C, complaints received on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) have increased sharply in recent days, with incidents following an identical modus operandi reported from Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The agency said it had already alerted the public to the emerging threat through an advisory issued on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on Friday issued a fresh warning over a surge in cyber fraud cases involving the takeover of WhatsApp accounts through malicious files disguised as account statements and regulatory communications. According to the I4C, complaints received on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) have increased sharply in recent days, with incidents following an identical modus operandi reported from Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The agency said it had already alerted the public to the emerging threat through an advisory issued on June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027454,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027428\/revisions\/1027454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}