payment fraud

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs is warning finance teams that a Windows infection can now turn a senior executive’s genuine WhatsApp account into the delivery channel for a fraudulent payment order. The campaign, described by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre as the “Boss Scam,” starts...

A Mumbai-based company has reported the transfer of ₹2.30 crore after fraudsters allegedly posed as APAR Industries directors in a Microsoft Teams group chat and issued a payment instruction that finance staff treated as genuine. The Free Press Journal, citing the FIR filed with Mumbai’s South...

Additional coverage of this story: SEBI Boss Scam Warning: Stop ZIP Malware Hijacking WhatsApp Web A companion account dates the Ministry of Home Affairs advisory to June 22 and specifies that the ZIP payload uses a Trojan dropper to establish persistence before hijacking active WhatsApp Web...

India’s Securities and Exchange Board has warned listed companies and regulated entities that a “Boss Scam” campaign is using CEO impersonation, malicious ZIP files and hijacked WhatsApp Web sessions to trigger fraudulent fund transfers — a combination that puts Windows endpoints and finance...