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Gitpaste-12 Worm - Sneaking through the Systems

5 years ago

The Gitpaste-12 worm has been brought into the limelight once again, a few weeks after its discovery in late October by Juniper Threat Labs where it was found targeting Linux based x86 servers, as well as Linux Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This malware has been named so because of... Read more

The Gitpaste-12 worm has been brought into the limelight once again, a few weeks after... Read more

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Microsoft warns Android users about MalLocker Ransomware

5 years ago

Microsoft has warned all Android users about new ransomware, which is believed to be a version of the known Android ransomware family named "MalLocker.B." It locks the device behind a ransom note by taking advantage of incoming call notifications and Android's Home button. It includes a new feature that delivers... Read more

Microsoft has warned all Android users about new ransomware, which is believed to be a... Read more

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China Is Helping Pakistani Hackers Launch Cyber Attacks on India

5 years ago

Transparent Tribe, a suspected Pakistan-based hacker group is allegedly behind an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, dubbed ‘Operation Sidecopy’, against Indian armed forces and defence units. According to researchers at Seqrite, a branch of Quick Heal, the hacker group is being backed by China to gather intelligence against India. Himanshu Dubey, director... Read more

Transparent Tribe, a suspected Pakistan-based hacker group is allegedly behind an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, dubbed... Read more

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Chinese Hackers attempted to attack on Indian Cyberspace

5 years ago

Chinese hackers attempted yet another attack on Indian cyberspace more than 40,300 times since last week, post-Galwan clash. As per the report available with the Indian security bureaus, most of these attacks have originated from Sichuan province, which is the headquarters of China's Cyberwarfare. 'Distributed Denial of Service'... Read more

Chinese hackers attempted yet another attack on Indian cyberspace more than 40,300 times since last... Read more

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Minnesota Suffers Second-Largest Data Breach

5 years ago

Allina Health hospitals and clinics, Children’s Minnesota, Regions Hospital and Gillette Children’s, all based in Minnesota, sent letters to families who may have been impacted by a data breach in which personal data may have been exposed. The breach happened at Blackbaud, a third-party vendor that provides data service for... Read more

Allina Health hospitals and clinics, Children’s Minnesota, Regions Hospital and Gillette Children’s, all based in... Read more

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Zhenhua Data leak: Personal details of 2.4 M gathered by Chinese tech company

5 years ago

A Chinese tech company that has links to the country's military and intelligence networks collected personal details of millions of people worldwide. The database includes about 2.4 million people, mostly scraped from public open-source data such as social media profiles. Zhenhua Data, based in Shenzhen, compiled it.A cybersecurity consultancy based... Read more

A Chinese tech company that has links to the country's military and intelligence networks collected... Read more

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Indian PM Modi target of Twitter hack soliciting relief funds

5 years ago

After the recent widespread bitcoin giveaway scam, in July, in which the twitter accounts of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, Tesla’s Elon Musk and many others were breached, on Thursday Twitter confirmed that the Twitter account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website known as the Prime Minister’s National Relief... Read more

After the recent widespread bitcoin giveaway scam, in July, in which the twitter accounts of... Read more

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Union minister G Kishan Reddy's personal website hacked

5 years ago

The personal website of Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy (http://kishanreddy.com) was hacked on August 15, 2020, by an unidentified person. This Tuesday, an official in his office said that the city police had been informed about it. In his statement, Kishan Reddy stated," It was his... Read more

The personal website of Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy (http://kishanreddy.com) was... Read more

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Marriott faces London lawsuit over vast data breach

5 years ago

The world's largest hotel operator, LONDON Marriot International Inc, faces a London class action for compromising the personal data of millions of former hotel guests in one of the most massive data breaches in history. In 2014 and 2018, more than 300 million customer records from Marriott's global database, including... Read more

The world's largest hotel operator, LONDON Marriot International Inc, faces a London class action for... Read more