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According to Dr Sanjay Bahl, Director-General, CERT-In, they have seen different set of attacks during the pandemic and the threat actors primarily employed references related to COVID-19 in phishing attacks to steal sensitive information and drop additional malware.
“The threat actors devised new strategies to target victims with scams or malware campaigns using legitimate corporate branding in the name of COVID-19 and names of trusted organisations in phishing attacks in order to attain credibility and to lure victims,” Bahl told IANS.
Vaccine airlift delivers shot in the arm for airlines
IATA, representing 290 airlines, warns that vaccine rollout could be “compromised” without an easing of the travel curbs and quarantines it has lobbied against.
“There are parts of the world that have no cargo operations once the passenger networks are grounded,” IATA head of cargo Glyn Hughes said.
India considering accelerated review of COVID-19 vaccine emergency use
“We are in the process of reviewing. It is an accelerated reviewing process, which is there for Serum too,” the government official said. “All applications are accelerated. It is the need of the hour.”
Country will not have to wait too long for COVID-19 Vaccine:PM Modi
“However, there should be no laxity from our side as far as prevention of the infection is concerned. Masks and a distance of two yards is very necessary,” Modi said.
ICICI Lombard and PLUM to provide technologically powered group health insurance products
Abhishek Poddar, Co-founder & CEO of Plum added, “The group insurance health market in India is projected to grow to Rs 100,000 crores by 2025, and will see the rise of innovative insurance products not available in advanced markets. ”
Covid 19 Pandemic to hit life insurers’ investment income,ULIP and Pension and Annuity business:LIC Chief
TR Alamelu, member, IRDAI explained that that the solution to the issue of under-insurance in the country does not lie in mandating insurance because a stage has been reached where insurance should be a product on “demand” and It cannot be forced upon consumers by the industry or other stakeholders.
Tokyo Olympics delay costs near $2.8 billion
About two-thirds of the added costs are being picked up by the two government entities, with the other one-third going to the privately funded organizing committee.
Serum likely to supply COVID-19 vaccine at over $3 a dose to Indian government
The government is pinning its hopes for mass supply on Serum Institute, which lodged the first formal application for emergency-use approval of AstraZeneca’s shot on Monday.
Chief Executive Officer Adar Poonawalla had earlier said the vaccine would be priced at 1,000 rupees ($13.55) per dose in India’s private market, but governments signing large supply deals would likely buy it at lower prices.
India investigates if organochlorines behind unknown illness
More than 400 in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh have been hospitalised in the past few days, a health official said on Tuesday.
The unknown illness has infected more than 300 children, with most of them suffering from dizziness, fainting spells, headache and vomiting. They have tested negative for COVID-19.
A year into COVID-19, U.N. declares a day of ‘epidemic preparednes
The COVID-19 virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year and spread globally, so far infecting more than 66 million people and killing some 1.5 million. The World Health Organization (WHO) called it a pandemic in March, a declaration that the United States and others said came too late.
“Given that the General Assembly has previously declared international days devoted to chess, yoga and toilets it only seems fair that epidemics should have their day too,” said International Crisis Group U.N. director Richard Gowan.