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VULNERABILITIES

Verifone and Ingenico—security issues and vulnerabilities in POS terminals

4 years ago

Security vulnerabilities were discovered in two leading manufacturers of point-of-sale terminals technology, Verifone and Ingenico, making it open to various cyber-attacks. They were discovered by researcher Aleksei Stennikov and Timur Yunusov, head of offensive security research at Cyber R&D Lab, during a presentation at Black Hat Europe 2020. A point-of-sale... Read more

Security vulnerabilities were discovered in two leading manufacturers of point-of-sale terminals technology, Verifone and Ingenico,... Read more

BREACHES

Microsoft warns Android users about MalLocker Ransomware

4 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

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