After nearly 3 years of dormancy, on May 29, The Anonymous group posted a video message on their Facebook page promising to expose the “many crimes” of the Minneapolis city’s police to the world. The video stated, “Police brutality and murder is a widespread problem in the United States, which has undoubtedly infected nearly every…
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…
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…
After a huge data leak affecting scores of high-profile Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), this month has seen a rise in the number of defense contractors being hacked. Most recently, data of nearly 100,000 employees of the Interserve, Britain’s Ministry of Defence contractor, have been stolen. On the 13th of May, Interserve reported in…
XtremeRAT is a type of RAT(Remote Access Trojan) that is more common than the common cold. It is prevalent to the degree that it is not uncommon to find at least one active RAT in a network on any given incident response engagement in Asia. The tool is readily available to anyone who desires to…
The famous TikTok V/s Youtube meme war started when Moscow-return TikTok creator Amir Siddiqui posted a video on Instagram calling out the YouTubers. The Moscow-return ‘social media influencer’ accused YouTubers of plagiarizing TikTok contents. As a reply, on May 8, famous roaster and YouTube sensation CarryMinati (Ajey Nagar) lashed out against Siddiqui’s video on YouTube….
The rise of cyber attacks amidst the pandemic has led to numerous users being compromised. The cyber cold war has made each and every one of us vulnerable to data stealth and much more. Google’s initiative to redesign its browser’s desktop security and privacy settings is the one good step that must be appreciated. Rise…
On Monday 11th May at 4:30 in the evening, the UK’s national supercomputing service ARCHER notified that its security on the login nodes had been exploited. Later, ARCHER was disabled and taken offline for further investigation. Two days after the incident, the supercomputing service, working with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Cray/HPE, reported…
There are times when you don’t have words left in your vocabulary to express your anguish. I’m, at the moment, going through one such phase. No doubt the whole world is going through a very difficult time which is tremendously affecting our life but everybody isn’t being impacted with the same intensity. The most affected…
When asked whether the COVID-19 virus was genetically engineered in a lab, scientists have already said “no” rather firmly, but the matter of the new corona virus’ origin is unlikely to be put to rest so easily. Discussions around this subject have become even more pertinent since US government intelligence officials are reportedly investigating the…