The phishing sites were identified in early 2022 during a trial of the Online Cybersquat Hunter created by the Home Team Science and Technology Agency. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Bearing the logos and exact same layouts of different news organisations, the sites appeared almost identical to the real ones.
The sites, which have since been blocked, also contained links leading to fake gambling sites believed to be used to scam victims into revealing their bank accounts and personal details. But the tool has since been extended to other government organisations to assist them in fighting scams. The Q Team at HTX, which developed the OCH, has also been developing other scam-fighting tools for the authorities to use.
It does this by automatically checking sites against a database of previously known scam sites, so that such resurrected scam sites can be identified quicker.
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