Fake ID-Printing Websites Use Customer Data For Cyber Fraud: UP Cops

A large number of such cyber threat actors mushroomed following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and are based in western Uttar Pradesh, CloudSEK has found in a new research.

Hundreds of fake identity card-printing websites are operating out of Uttar Pradesh and duping people by using their personal information, according to a cyber security research firm.

The websites put out advertisements offering to make physical identity cards like Aadhaar, PAN, driving licence etc. and deliver those at the customers' doorstep at affordable rates, CloudSEK, the Bengaluru-based firm, has claimed.

The personal information of people is used to carry out social engineering attacks, identity thefts, phishing attacks, while it can also be exploited to carry out unauthorised financial transactions and issuing SIM cards illegally, it noted.

A large number of such cyber threat actors mushroomed following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and are based in western Uttar Pradesh, CloudSEK has found in a new research.