![]() ![]() AnyDesk itself is secure, trusted and used by millions of people and 15,000 companies in 165 countries. NEW DELHI: Amid rising instances of fraud using the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) platform, the Reserve Bank of India has cautioned all banks and payment system operators about a new modus operandi allegedly used by scammers to target customer phones.The RBI’s warning was not about AnyDesk as an application, but the scammers who use remote access software to pretend to be from banks and other institutions and trick users into giving them access. ![]() Data on the NPCI website shows that between April 2018 and January 2019, the UPI platform saw 388 crore transactions worth over Rs 6.4 lakh crore. Officials say the circular was originally issued by National Payments Commission of India (NPCI) to ensure that genuine makers of payments applications put some controls on the kind of data they access on customer phones. In its alert, the RBI said that it had sent out a similar advisory on January 10. The app then allegedly proceeds to steal confidential data on the phone to carry out fraudulent transactions via other payments apps. Post this, the fraudster will get full access to the victim’s device,” the circular read. “An app code (nine-digit number) would be generated and once the fraudster inserts this code, he would ask the victim to grant permission. ![]() Once the app is installed on customer phones, it seeks permission to access controls of the phone, like all other applications. In an alert dated February 14, the cyber security and IT examination cell of the central bank said that a mobile application called ‘AnyDesk’ was allegedly being used by fraudsters to access data on mobile devices. ![]()
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