Sumit Gupta, formerly accused of a hack-for-hire scheme in California in 2015, is the owner of Delhi based BellTroX company. The Indian IT firm is a global hackers-for-hire service platform that has targeted thousands of high-profile individuals and organizations. University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab states that BellTroX is dubbed as ‘Dark Basin‘ and has targeted…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lately, it has become really difficult to understand the tactics of our neighboring country of Pakistan. Also, it has become difficult to distinguish between the country and an ostrich! Like an ostrich buries its head in the sand during a storm and pretends that he is safe, Pakistan has filtered out Indian traffic from their…
Research has discovered a flaw in Intel’s Thunderbolt port that puts the security of millions of laptops manufactured before 2019 at risk. Björn Ruytenberg of the Eindhoven University of Technology calls it the “Thunderspy” and says that it lets the attacker “read and copy all your data, even if your drive is encrypted and your…
Unless you are living under a rock, you must have heard about the use of Artificial Intelligence for undressing people. Technology has got both of its sides on the rise. The first one of its kind was the Deep Fakes which evolved into the infamous Deep Nudes. However, less than a day after the launch,…