CyberSecurity

Fraudsters get creative, come up with newer ways to dupe people

Hacker who took over Biden, Musk Twitter accounts pleads guilty [details]

A UK citizen accused of hacking Twitter accounts as part of a Bitcoin scheme has pleaded guilty to his role in cyber stalking and computer hacking that targeted numerous high-profile social media accounts, including the July 2020 Twitter hack.

May 12, 2023

"Chinese hackers outnumber our cyber staff 50 to 1": FBI director amid growing cyber threats [details]

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has revealed that Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to one.

Apr 30, 2023

Jamtara fraud syndicate busted; Delhi Police seize 21,000 SIM cards [details]

A syndicate, based in Jharkhand's Jamtara, defrauding gullible bank customers by pretending to be staff of a prominent bank has been busted by the Delhi Police with the arrest of six of its members and nearly 22,000 SIM cards recovered.

Apr 19, 2023

Mega personal data breach busted, one held: Personal; info of 66.9 cr people stolen [details]

Sharing further information, Cyderabad Police said that the accused was holding data from 135 categories, containing sensitive information from government and private organisations too.

Apr 1, 2023

Data of 6 lakh HDFC Bank customers' exposed; bank denies [details]

After reports surfaced that personal information of nearly 6 lakh customers of HDFC Bank was allegedly leaked on the Dark Web, the bank said on Tuesday there has been no data leak of its customers.

Mar 7, 2023

Cyber criminals syndicate operating from China and Dubai unearthed, had cheated 11,000

Delhi Police has unearthed an international gang of cyber crooks based in China, and Dubai, and a mastermind in Georgia, who have defrauded 11,000 people on the pretext of providing online work from home jobs in Amazon, an official said on Friday

Jan 28, 2023

Indian government sector top target for hackers in 2022, warns report

The number of cyber attacks targeting the Indian government sector increased by a whopping 95 per cent in the second half of 2022 compared to the same period last year, a report showed on Friday

Dec 30, 2022

Indian Railways data hacked; being sold on dark web [details]

Data of around three crore travellers registered with the Indian Railways has been hacked and reportedly put on sale on the Dark Web, as per reports.

Dec 28, 2022

Over 829 million cyber attacks blocked in Q4; Indian websites make majority: Report

More than 829 million cyber attacks were blocked during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022 globally, of which 59 per cent of the websites were in India.

Dec 27, 2022

Beware: Hackers can use ChatGPT to write malicious phishing emails, codes [read now]

The CPR team used 'ChatGPT' to produce malicious emails, code and a full infection chain capable of targeting people's computers.

Dec 20, 2022

AIIMS Delhi server down: Here's what happened and what's next [details]

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, is still struggling to get its servers up and running after a massive ransomware attack earlier this week. Here's everything that has happened in the last week.

Nov 28, 2022

5.4 mn users' data exposed online as Musk reveals Twitter 2.0; includes phone numbers, email IDs

As Elon Musk goes gaga over Twitter 2.0 which will be the 'Everything App', at least 5.4 million Twitter user records, stolen via an internal bug, have been leaked online on a hacker forum.

Nov 28, 2022

WhatsApp phone numbers of about 500 mn users leaked; put on sale by hacker [details]

WhatsApp phone numbers of 487 million users have been stolen and put on sale on a "well-known" hacking community forum, the media reported.

Nov 27, 2022

Beware: Financial data of over 9 mn cardholders leaked, including from SBI [details]

Cyber-security researchers on Wednesday said they have discovered a massive leak involving over nine million cardholders' financial data that includes customers of the State Bank of India (SBI).

Oct 12, 2022

Hackers send cabs to same location in Russia; creates huge traffic jam [here's why]

In a bizarre incident, hackers broke into the ride-hailing service provider Yandex Taxi's software and sent dozens of cars to the same location, resulting in a traffic jam that lasted for three hours.

Sep 4, 2022

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