Army warns of phishing email seeking access to NIC accounts

The Army Headquarters has accordingly said, “A fraudulent e-mail is circulating in the environment allegedly from webmaster, Indian Army, asking about the personal details of NIC email ID users. The environment is hereby advised not to reply to this email.”

The email is purportedly sent from an ID webmaster.indianarmy@nic.in.

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It says “We are upgrade and maintenance our Army database, If you have have NIC account please download link 1 and fill this from (Sic). If you do not have NIC account please open link 2 and open new user subscription. Enter Army number make your new NIC account.”

The Army has called the email a hoax and possibly dangerous.

The email then goes on to provide two links, https://webmail.nic.in/user and https://webmail.nic.in. To provide further authenticity, the email gives the address of the Additional Directorate General of Public Information in South Block, New Delhi along with the webmaster’s email ID.

Sources inform that off late there have been several attempts to gather personal as well as official information on the internet and that several advisories are already in place not to share any information on an email which appears to be suspicious in nature.

A senior officer in Western Command informed that following the attempts by certain elements to befriend military personnel over social media platforms, a heightened alert over cyber security is in place.

“Such phishing emails make it clear that someone wants to get access to official email accounts in order to access the classified information which would be available in the email transactions. All officers and other ranks who handle such email accounts have been duly cautioned and in addition firewalls are being strengthened to prevent access or hacking,” he said.