Popping out of nowhere, Mitron went viral overnight, capitalizing on its name that is a popular greeting by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Besides, PM Modi’s latest ‘vocal for local’ initiative somehow provided a foundational ground to the app’s marketing. Mitron, which was promoted as a homegrown competitor to TikTok, in separate news, gained over 5…
The next morning was busy for her although it was a Sunday. She had her online conferences with instructions from her organization. After the conference, she sent him a text, “Are you free?” “I am. Are we planning to meet? Come over. Let’s catch up.” He was always willing to meet her and what could…
On March 9, security researcher JJ informed the GitHub Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) about a set of GitHub repositories actively serving malware. The malware was built to compromise NetBeans projects and all the affected projects were serving as backdoors without their owners knowing about it. This malware, called the Octopus Scanner, lands on a…
She slowly got up from the bed, dressed herself and said good bye to him. “Go safe and ping me once you reach.” He said. She left his room in silence. The next morning headlines read that the lockdown has been extended and her boss called her up to work from home for a month…
Once upon a time in old Scandinavia, there were Vikings who used to raid the coasts with the intention of capturing livestock and indigenous peoples for the slave trade. They had well developed spy networks that informed them of the local customs, the dates of religious feasts, helped with translation and indicated places to plunder…
The news of her preparation for leave was somehow disturbing him. He knew that his life was going to change very soon too as he had to be back to his family life. But somehow, he wanted to spend as much time as he had with her. He wanted to make this bond memorable. She…
It was quite dark and she entered her car into a narrow lane. She had already sensed that she took a wrong route, but the street was so narrow that she could find no way to turn her car. She pondered if she should call him or find her way all by herself. She kept…
Bitdefender researchers have found attacks performed by Remix Kitten in the Middle East region. The campaigns are targeted at air transportation and government and have relied on social engineering, custom backdoors and ‘living off the land’ tools. Remix Kitten is an Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat that performs Cyber Espionage since at least 2014 to collect…
It was too dark and she cursed herself for taking such steps without thinking much. She spoke to herself, “O yes, I am adventurous, but never did I think to experience this kind of adventure. I must have lost my mind.” Saying this, as she turned her car, his call made the car halt suddenly…
The Sacred Month of Ramadan In 610 A.D., possibly twenty and two days past the month of Ramadan, an exalted man of about forty years of age was fasting and meditating in a cave called Hira that rested upon Mount Jabal al-Nur in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arab. It so happened that the eventuating…