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Since 2015 the Dark Web marketplaces have been flourishing. From drugs, weapons, databases, fake documents to all sorts of illegal stuff are available for anyone at anytime. Recently, HackRead found out a vendor going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users […]
The personal identifiable information of people in the wrong hands could cause a major havoc, and this could happen pretty soon in India. According to the reports, the government sites supposed to protect the user data are instead, leaking it! Names, addresses, date of birth, PAN card details, Aadhaar card numbers and other relevant details […]
One of the biggest and most popular social networking platforms, Snapchat, has once again become the center of attention. But this time, it is for all the wrong reasons with tweets and hashtags (#Uninstall_Snapchat and #BoycottSnapchat) urging people to get rid of the app. Apparently, the outrage started in India, after one of Snapchat’s former employees […]
A recent incident has left many in a state of shock when a big screen at one of the busiest metro stations in India started streaming hardcore pornography in the middle of the day. After the footage went viral, the company handling the network promised a thorough investigation, as one of their officials, stated on […]
Short Bytes: It has been reported that the India-based Bank of Maharashtra has incurred financial losses amounting INR 25Cr (roughly $4 million). It happened due to a technical flaw in the bank’s UPI Payments app designed by the Mumbai-based company. The bank has lodged FIR against 50 suspects, and they are trying to recover the funds from other banks. […]
Short Bytes: Here we answer a simple question. How does India’s AI horizon look like? We present here a curated list of startups that employ AI as the solution for almost everything!. The field of Artificial Intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational […]
Only yesterday we heard about Anonymous taking on the Dark Web based child pornography websites and now a similar operation was launched against pages/groups on Facebook uploading pornographic content. However, this time, the attack has been initiated by a group of Kerala, India, based hacker group called Kerala Cyber Warriors (KCW), which claim to be […]
A popular horse racing website (Racingpulse.in) that operates out of Bangalore, India was reportedly hacked on Tuesday. The hackers posted a statement on the home page informing that the entire data on the website has been encrypted. As is the norm, they also informed about what they expected as ransom. The ransom note suggested that they […]
Hackers have started a new campaign in which they have chosen WhatsApp as the primary malware-distributing platform. In this campaign, hackers are distributing the malware through 2 files namely “NDA-ranked-8th-toughest-College-in-the-world-to-get-into.xls” and “NIA-selection-order-.xls” respectively. These files are being circulated via WhatsApp in the form of authentic word files obtaining sensitive information from users which include online […]
Nigerian news website Politics Nigeria has reported that two Indian sisters hailing from Toronto, Canada have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria, for their alleged involvement in cyber-bullying and extortion of a Nigerian billionaire along with 274 others. The sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo have quite a heavy following on Instagram; when combined the cumulative total […]
The data belongs to Indian Missions in Africa and Europe — Hackers claim they leaked the data because site admins didn’t respond to security alerts. Hackers using the alias Kapustkiy and Kasimierz posted on twitter that they have managed to access the official websites of the Indian missions in countries including South Africa, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Italy, Switzerland and Romania. Also Read: Unicef India […]
ThePirateBay.org domain has been blocked by some ISPs in India and users are not happy about it. Earlier we reported how India has waged a war on Torrents and file sharing websites. Now according to Hackread’s readers in India, the World’s largest BitTorrent tracker ThePirateBay is being blocked by some Internet service providers (ISPs) throughout the […]
India is waging a war of Torrents and file sharing sites — The government has blocked several torrenting and file sharing sites and Imprisonment has been threatened for anyone viewing or downloading content from such sites It looks like the whole world is going after Torrent websites. Beginning with the shutdown of Kickass Torrents which led to the […]
Short Bytes: In a step that will boost open source adoption in India in a big manner, the Indian government plans to launch its own open source collaboration platform. Just like GitHub and SourceForge, people would be able to visit this platform and share their code with others. The government also plans to use it […]
ISPs in Mumbai city of Indian suffered massive DDoS attacks a couple of days ago slowing Internet speed in the city! Internet Service Providers in Mumbai, India stated that they have been facing a series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks affecting Internet speed in the city. Several ISPs in the city also launched […]
Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI is using Smartphone Malware for Spying upon its Military and Security Forces- Claims Indian Government. Pakistan’s intelligence agency is popular all over the world for its novel tactics and amazing abilities to stay updated about security concerns. After all, it wasn’t declared one of the world’s best intelligence agencies in 2015 […]
Pakistan-Linked Hackers Successfully Conduct Third Cyber-Espionage Campaign Against Indian Military within a Month Operation C-Major is the name of the latest cyber-espionage campaign implemented by Pakistan-linked hackers. Trend Micro reports that the campaign targeted Indian military employees via a spear-phishing mechanism with which spyware was distributed to the victims. As per the security firm’s analysis, […]
Google has removed SmeshApp from PlayStore on the allegations that the app is a tool used by Pakistan’s ISI to spy on Indian military personnel The rivalry between India and Pakistan is known to the whole world with militaries of both countries at war for several times after getting independence from the Brits — Now the tools […]
Scarlet Mimic Espionage Malware Campaign Targets Activists and Minorities like Uyghur and Tibet — The Campaign Also targets Indian and Russian government agencies. Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 researchers have been following the four-year-long espionage campaign quite intensely, which was instigated by a group of hackers dubbed as Scarlet Mimic by the research team. As per their […]
Earlier this year we reported about security measures taken by United Airlines that they’ll give you up to a million miles to find a Security Bug in their system. An Indian researcher Rahul Mohanraj who read about the United Airlines’ bug bounty program was perhaps excited to travel those million miles so he started working […]
Short Bytes: The government of India doesn’t understand the concept of online privacy and the importance of encryption. A new government body of “experts” has proposed a new Encryption Policy ruling out the need of online encryption. The Indian government has made a fool of itself by creating an environment of anxiety with its newly […]