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BREACHES
China Is Helping Pakistani Hackers Launch Cyber Attacks on India
4 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
BREACHES
Chinese Hackers attempted to attack on Indian Cyberspace
4 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
FRAUDS AND SCAMS
Free iPhone 12 scam spreading through SMS
4 years ago
iPhone 12 is releasing in October, and it has provided scammers an opportunity to fill up their pockets. According to Sophos, the SMS reads: "Dear Christopher, we have your packet in queue. Address: Londonderry, Ballynagard crescent" along with a link. The SMS is meant to look like it has been... Read more
iPhone 12 is releasing in October, and it has provided scammers an opportunity to fill... Read more
BREACHES
Minnesota Suffers Second-Largest Data Breach
4 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
BREACHES
Zhenhua Data leak: Personal details of 2.4 M gathered by Chinese tech company
4 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
POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Stricter Laws not Knee-jerk Bans Needed To Ensure Data Privacy
4 years ago
TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and now PUBG. The Indian government has banned another 118 apps on September 2, linked to China, after the recent ban on 59 China based apps in June and another 47 in July. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has cited privacy and cybersecurity reasons... Read more
TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and now PUBG. The Indian government has banned another 118 apps... Read more
BREACHES
Indian PM Modi target of Twitter hack soliciting relief funds
4 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
VULNERABILITIES
Malicious npm package caught trying to steal sensitive Discord and browser files
4 years ago
The Node Packet Manager (npm) security team has removed a malicious JS library named “fallguys” that claimed to provide an interface to the “Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout” game API. The malicious package present in the library would get executed whenever developers installed and ran the “fallguys” library in their code.... Read more
The Node Packet Manager (npm) security team has removed a malicious JS library named “fallguys”... Read more
BREACHES
Union minister G Kishan Reddy's personal website hacked
4 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
BREACHES
Data of 235 million Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok users exposed in a data breach
4 years ago
A British research firm, Comparitech, disclosed how an unsecured database left nearly 235 million Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube profiles exposed online. A vast majority of these profiles were scraped from Instagram with data from under 100 million profiles, while at least 42 million records from TikTok and nearly 4 million... Read more
A British research firm, Comparitech, disclosed how an unsecured database left nearly 235 million Instagram,... Read more
