MCMC tracks party using national coat of arms in poster on cyber pandemic warning

MCMC is tracing those behind a viral warning featuring the country’s coat of arms, which claimed a ‘cyber pandemic’ was coming, related to the Facebook outage. — Photo by Akshar Dave on Unsplash

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is tracing the party which issued a poster on cyber pandemic warning featuring the coat of arms of the country.

MCMC in a statement today reminded the people not to use the country’s coat of arms without authorisation as it is an offence under the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act 1963.