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3 Billion Account Credentials From Gmail, LinkedIn, Bitcoin Have Been Leaked

In the event that you have an account on Gmail and Linkedin, then this news is specifically for you. As per the report by BGR India, a huge vault or repository of the user data breach has been uncovered/exposed and hackers have as of late posted more than 3 billion clients’ credentials online as a…
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MoU Signed By HCL Technologies With IIT-Kanpur For The Development Of Cybersecurity

On Monday, HCL (Hindustan Computers Limited) Technologies, released an update on its newsroom, in which the organization said that they have entered/signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur (IITK) to collaborate in the sector of cybersecurity. HCL Technologies is an Indian multinational technology company that specializes in information technology…
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Microsoft Believes That Government Intervention In Response To Cyber Attack Would Result In ‘The Fog of War’

Microsoft recently took the open door to alert the central government to be aware of the issues it takes with the proposed critical infrastructure/framework legislation by highlighting a few parts of the Bill that could inadvertently make Australia’s security situation even less secure. The draft legislation being referred to, the Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2020,…
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Access To User’s Email Inboxes Was Being Sold By An Employee Of Yandex

Yandex is a Russian Dutch-domiciled search engine, ride-hailing, and email service provider, who on Friday uncovered a data breach in which email accounts of 4,887 of its users were breached or compromised. The organization accused an anonymous employee of the occurrence of this event, who had been giving unauthorized access to the clients’ email inboxes…
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Telegram’s Feature Secret Chat Stores Self-Destructing Media Files On Shared Device

Telegram, a mainstream popular messaging application, recently fixed a privacy crushing bug in its macOS version of the application that made it conceivable to access the self-destructing video and audio messages or files even after they have vanished from secret chats for a long period of time. The vulnerability was found by the cybersecurity researcher…
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Pre-Valentine Malware Attack Using Phishing Emails To Imposter Well-Known Lingerie & Flower Stores

As Valentine’s Day approaches at the end of this week, a lot of people have recently received order confirmation emails for lingerie and flowers. But actually, these confirmation emails are a part of a spear-phishing assault that will eventually drive casualties to a noxious document or file that will execute the BazaLoader malware. The BazaLoader…
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SaaS Security Posture Management With Misconfigured SaaS Settings

Not all but most of the organizations in today’s world, which is full of cybercriminals and cybercrime groups, are mainly concerned about their cloud security situation or reputation. What’s even more concerning for organizations is the SaaS (Software-as-a-service) Security Posture Management (SSPM). A recent attack faced and revealed by Malwarebytes explained how they were targeted…
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Iran Performing Espionage Campaigns On Dissidents

As per CheckPoint, a cybersecurity company, over 1000 dissidents and expats are being targeted by two separate surveillance campaigns being operated in cyber-space by Iran. CheckPoint researchers explained that the campaigns were initiated against people in Iran and other 12 different nations involving the US and UK. Also, the two groups behind the campaigns were…
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Android Devices Now Being Targeted By LodaRAT Windows

A former Windows RAT (Remote Access Trojan) that had the abilities of credential-stealing has now been upgraded and its scope has been widened to cover and target Android device users to increase the attacker’s espionage motives. Researchers from Cisco Talos, in a blog post, said that “The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a…
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Researchers Found Pakistan Officials Being Targeted By New Android Spying Campaign

Researchers from Lookout discovered two new Android surveillanceware families that have been targeting military, nuclear/atomic, and political entities of Pakistan and Kashmir as a component of a pro-India, which is a nation-backed/state-sponsored hacking operation/campaign. The malwares named Hornbill and Sunbird imitate genuine or apparently harmless administrations to cover its tracks, just to subtly gather SMSs,…
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