SINGAPORE - At least three political parties have fallen victim to hackers who are pretending to be them in the lead-up to the general election on July 10, in order to spread fake news, or possibly, to steal money and information.
"Any page that masquerades as Red Dot United would have as its intention the hijacking of the identity and messaging of our party. We are grateful for the quick response by Facebook to take the fake page down," she said. While the fake RDU page has been removed, a fake page pretending to be PV was still up as of Sunday evening.
"These fake pages are dangerous because you do not know what is on the minds of people who create them. They might want to mislead the public to cause us harm and make us look like extremists or lunatics," said Mr Lim.Besides fake Facebook pages, bad actors have also sent individual text messages pretending to be political parties.
In an advisory on Sunday, the Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team warned that reports of malicious cyber activities increased during elections in other countries and this could happen when Singapore goes to the polls on July 10 too.
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