CyberSecurity

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

Personal data of 1M+ Kashmir University students hacked; put on sale for $250 [details]

Personal data of over one million Kashmir University students has been spotted on a hacking forum, listed for as little as $250.

Aug 9, 2022

Cleartrip confirms data breach; says data is 'safe' [details]

Flipkart-owned flight booking platform Cleartrip has reported a data breach. However, the company told its customers that their data was safe.

Jul 19, 2022

Personal details of 1 billion Chinese people dumped on Dark Web; on sale for 10 Bitcoins [details]

The leaked data may belong to Chinese citizens as a user on an underground hacking forum claimed to be selling a 23TB database for 10 Bitcoins of billions of Chinese citizens.

Jul 5, 2022

Who's Crypto Queen on run? FBI announces $100K reward on Ruja Ignatova

In 2014, Ignatova founded OneCoin, a Bulgarian-based crypto bereft of blockchain but turned out to be a Ponzi scheme to rival Bitcoin

Jul 2, 2022

UP govt's Twitter handle hacked; hundreds of malicious tweets posted, DP removed [details]

After the UP CMO official Twitter was taken over by hackers, more than 400-500 tweets were made from the account. The hackers had also removed the Chief Minister's display picture from the Twitter handle.

Apr 11, 2022

Mega cyberattack took down Israeli govt sites; no clue who's behind it [details]

A number of Israeli government websites went down in an apparent cyberattack as the country's cyber authority confirmed it was a DDoS attack that had blocked access to government websites, and that all websites were back online.

Mar 15, 2022

Russian disinformation campaign against Ukraine exposed; FB, Twitter take action [details]

Facebook and Twitter removed two anti-Ukraine "covert influence operations" over the weekend. One had ties to Russia, while the other was connected to Belarus.

Mar 3, 2022