New Delhi: The Centre on Friday, August 7, said that coordinated action by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), including geo-blocking of command-and-control (C2) servers through the Sahyog Portal, has protected more than 10,000 Indians from a WhatsApp account takeover campaign. “Through these coordinated interventions, more than 10,000 Indians have been protected from this campaign so far. I4C had earlier issued an advisory on June 22 warning citizens about the emerging threat involving regulatory and executive impersonation for WhatsApp account takeovers. “In the reported incidents, victims receive a compressed (.zip) file over WhatsApp, SMS or e-mail bearing names such as Statement of Account.zip (often prefixed with a date, e.g. These messages are crafted to resemble routine account statements or urgent notices from regulators, prompting recipients to open the files immediately.