China-Based Hackers Luring Indians into Fake Tata Motors Scam

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On Thursday, cyber-security researchers in India announced the discovery of a malicious free present marketing campaign managed by China-based hackers to gather personal user data. The marketing campaign is pretending to be an offer from Tata Motors, the biggest automobile manufacturing company in India, reports IANS.

The analysis workforce at New Delhi-based CyberPeace Foundation received some malicious links via WhatsApp, related to a free gift offer from Tata Motors, accumulating personal information about customers together with their browser and system information. 

“The campaign is pretended to be an offer from Tata Motors but hosted on the third-party domain instead of the official website of Tata Motors which makes it more suspicious,” the research team stated.

This malicious campaign being operated on a fake website is titled “Tata Motors Cars, Celebrates sales exceeding 30 million”. On the landing page, a congratulations message is displayed with an attractive photo of a Tata Safari car. Users are asked to participate in a quick survey to get a free TATA Safari vehicle. 

“Also, at the bottom of this page, a section comes up

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