An active Android malware campaign dubbed eXotic Visit has been primarily targeting users in South Asia, particularly those in India and Pakistan, with malware distributed via dedicated websites and Google Play Store. Slovak cybersecurity firm said the activity, ongoing since November 2021, is not linked to any known threat actor or group. It’s tracking the […]
The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are also configured to deliver a downloader named […]
Individuals in the Pakistan region have been targeted using two rogue Android apps available on the Google Play Store as part of a new targeted campaign. Cybersecurity firm Cyfirma attributed the campaign with moderate confidence to a threat actor known as DoNot Team, which is also tracked as APT-C-35 and Viceroy Tiger. The espionage activity […]
The Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Transparent Tribe used a two-factor authentication (2FA) tool used by Indian government agencies as a ruse to deliver a new Linux backdoor called Poseidon. “Poseidon is a second-stage payload malware associated with Transparent Tribe,” Uptycs security researcher Tejaswini Sandapolla said in a technical report published this […]
The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a new ongoing phishing campaign targeting students at various educational institutions in India at least since December 2021. “This new campaign also suggests that the APT is actively expanding its network of victims to include civilian users,” Cisco Talos said in […]
A report by Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency notes that a database containing the information of all citizens was compromised in a cybersecurity incident. Federal agents say threat actors have used the exposed information to illegally obtain SIM cards. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), responsible for safeguarding this information, notified the federal agency about […]
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian organizations, and anti-regime military forces in the West Asian country. The Pakistani threat actor, dubbed SideCopy, is said to have […]
Recent reports indicate that the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) suffered two major cyberattacks that impacted its backend systems and servers responsible for communication between the various branches, in addition to affecting the systems that control its network of ATMs and online banking apps. In a statement, the bank said that all necessary security measures […]
FBR, Pakistan’s IRS, has acknowledged the data breach and called it out as cyber-terrorism on Pakistan’s independence day. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of Pakistan (fbr.gov.pk) has suffered a large-scale cyber attack. This was revealed after a group of unknown hackers were found selling network access to the agency with more than 1500 computer systems on a Russian […]
Hackread.com informed Patari of the data breach almost a week ago yet we did not receive any response whatsoever. Patari or Patari.pk, a Pakistani music streaming site has suffered a data breach in which its database containing personal data and login credentials of over 257,000 registered users has been leaked on English and Russian language […]
A threat actor with suspected ties to Pakistan has been striking government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions to deploy a remote access trojan on compromised Windows systems, according to new research. “Most of the organizations that exhibited signs of compromise were in India, and a small number were in Afghanistan,” […]
Cybercriminals with suspected ties to Pakistan continue to rely on social engineering as a crucial component of its operations as part of an evolving espionage campaign against Indian targets, according to new research. The attacks have been linked to a group called Transparent Tribe, also known as Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard, which has […]
Turkish hackers left a message protesting against Iceland on a Twitter account owned by India actor. The official Twitter account of Bollywood’s legend Amitabh Bachchan has apparently been hacked by Turkish hacking group calling itself “Ayyildiz Tim.” The verified Twitter account with over 37.4 million followers has also been defaced with a photo of famous […]
Hackers are after anyone seeking Pakistani passport while there is no response from the website’s administrator. Researchers at information security firm Trustwave have made a startling new discovery about the data breach on a Pakistani government website involving the Scanbox Framework. It is worth noting that the Scanbox is a dangerous payload and this is […]
Researchers discovered 2 new databases online that contains a 70000 Pakistani Banks Credit/Debit cards data go sale on the underground market. Group-IB who were discovered this database estimated the vaule nearly 3.5 million USD and it is one of the big sale of Pakistani banks data on dark web in the past 6 months. These […]
In the aftermath of the dastardly Pulwama terror attack that shook the nation to the core, a group of Indian Hacktivists going by the name Team I Crew has taken down multiple Pakistan Government websites, in one of the biggest cyber attacks on the neighbor. First reported by Times Now, well over 200 websites were […]
According to an official of the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency, almost all the banks of the country were affected by a recent security breach Almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach, a fact that has been revealed by researchers of a cybersecurity and digital forensics firm, and subsequently confirmed by the […]
Pakistani banks have debuted on the Dark Web with almost all of the country’s banks becoming victims of a devastating data hack. It is undoubtedly the biggest ever hacking campaign launched against banks in Pakistan. It is estimated that hackers have stolen financial data of more than 8,000 account holders from at least 10 different […]
Rafay Baloch has reported Vulnerability in Edge and Safari Browsers that Allows Address Bar Exploitation. Nowadays the phishing attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and difficult to detect so it is indeed appreciable that security researchers are managing to spot such campaigns in their initial phases. Reportedly, a security researcher from Pakistan Rafay Baloch has discovered […]
One of the famous Indian Hacking group called “Kerala Cyber Warriors” compromised Pakistan based Welfare organization website and encrypt the website files using KCW Ransomware. This group of hackers actively attacking over 1000 of Pakistan and Bangladesh based websites such as government websites, airport websites for various motivations. KCW (Kerala Cyber Warriors) Ransomware used to encrypting the website […]
Nothing is surprising about Indians hacking Pakistani websites or vice versa since militaries of both countries are fighting against each other for decades. But another war is being fought between hackers from both sides over the Internet. Earlier today, an Indian hacker going by the online handle of Ne0-H4ck3r hacked and defaced the official government portal of […]