{"id":648320,"date":"2025-01-08T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/indian-government-websites-are-still-redirecting-users-to-scam-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:25:20","slug":"indian-government-websites-are-still-redirecting-users-to-scam-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/indian-government-websites-are-still-redirecting-users-to-scam-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"#Indian government websites are still redirecting users to scam sites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some Indian government websites continue to allow the planting of scammy links on their official domains months after TechCrunch reported the issue.<\/p>\n

TechCrunch found more than 90 \u201cgov.in\u201d website links associated with Indian government departments \u2014 including the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and India Post, as well as state governments and councils of Haryana and Maharashtra and others \u2014 were redirecting to sites linked to online betting and investment scams. Search engines like Google have indexed the scam links hosted on government sites, increasing the risk of regular internet users finding them.<\/p>\n

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Several search results showing compromised Indian government websites hosting scam sites.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In May, TechCrunch reported that around four dozen Indian government website links were redirecting to online betting platforms. India\u2019s cyber agency, the Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-In, escalated the matter at the time. However, it remained unclear whether the government had fixed the underlying flaw that the scammers were exploiting to plant their links.<\/p>\n

Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures, among others, posted<\/a> on social media<\/a> platform X this week about the issue resurfacing, indicating that the hacked pages are widespread.<\/p>\n

Security researcher Bob Diachenko told TechCrunch that the issue may have resurfaced due to a compromise in the websites\u2019 content management system (CMS) or server configurations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf only the symptoms (e.g., malicious content) are removed without addressing the root cause (e.g., vulnerability or backdoor), attackers can reintroduce the issue,\u201d Diachenko said, adding, \u201cIt is not a very challenging exercise but requires some downtime and efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, TechCrunch contacted CERT-In with a few affected links. The agency did not respond to the email, though the links started showing a \u201cpage not found\u201d error at around the time of publication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some Indian government websites continue to allow the planting of scammy links on their official domains months after TechCrunch reported the issue. TechCrunch found more than 90 \u201cgov.in\u201d website links associated with Indian government departments \u2014 including the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and India Post, as well as state governments and councils of Haryana…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/indian-government-website-scam-link-redirect.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[90774,61594,17318,72287],"class_list":["post-648320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-indian-government","tag-exclusive","tag-india","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}