A South-Delhi based fashion blogger recently woke up to a rude shock when she learnt that her Instagram account had been hacked and that the hackers were based in eastern Europe.
Computer scientists in the US have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
One Indian businessman lost a whopping Rs 28 crore in such crypto wallet scam, Shah informed.
Twitter revealed that the massive hack that spread a cryptocurrency scam by hijacking accounts of high-profile celebrities, politicians and businesses was a result of a phone spear-phishing attack.
On July 15, Twitter was hacked and over 130 verified accounts of public figures and companies, including Apple, Uber, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were affected.
Ajay Nagar usually uses his second channel, CarryisLive with over 6 million subscribers, to post gaming videos.
The Twitter scam that affected at least 130 prominent users led to the complete removal of the Twitter carousel of tweets from the Google search result pages.
Google has deliberately but temporarily removed the Twitter carousel from the search results following the Bitcoin scam from 130 verified accounts.
The fake posts appeared to lure Twitter users by sending money to an anonymous Bitcoin account. There is no confirmation on if the owners of these Twitter accounts were targeted themselves. The apparently fake tweets were all quickly deleted, although The Associated Press was able to capture screenshots of several before they disappeared.
Twitter Hacked: After high-profile Twitter accounts of personalities like Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama, Kanye West, and others got hacked in Bitcoin scam, CEO Jack Dorsey said, 'We all feel terrible this happened.'
In what can be called the biggest Twitter attack, accounts of many famous personalities like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others have been hacked. Reacting to the same, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that it is a tough day for them and they are trying to know what exactly happened.
Two executives in Kolkata who were working from home and using the Zoom video calling app, allegedly received ransomware threats, demanding payments in bitcoins on Wednesday. The hackers demanded ransom to release the data which were encrypted from their computers. Both of them were using Zoom.
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