A recent advertisement on SpoofMyAss.com offers tools that assist in large-scale vishing attacks, raising concerns about cybersecurity and the need for heightened awareness and security measures.
India experiences a variety of cyberattacks, with phishing attacks being the most common at nearly 22%, closely followed by stolen or compromised credentials at 16%. Interestingly, social engineering emerged as the costliest cause of breaches, resulting in significant financial losses.
CoWIN data leak: There have been claims about a breach of data of citizens registered on the CoWIN platform, and opposition parties have asked the government to take deterrent action.
Joseph Sullivan, 54, of Palo Alto was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco last October of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge that a federal felony had been committed.
According to the State of Security, 2023 report by software firm Splunk, around 62 per cent of respondents have said that their business-critical applications have suffered from unplanned downtime due to a cybersecurity incident on at least a monthly basis, an increase from 54 per cent in 2022.
Apple unveiled a new set of educational resources which has been designed to help users take control of their data. The tech giant believes that every user should have clear insights into how their data is used and tools to decide when to share their data and who to share it with.
The Indian Railway's data was put on sale on a forum which has been run by cyber criminals and has user data, and invoices for the latest month.
"We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available," Uber posted in a tweet.
Paytm: According to the report, the data compromised included phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, income levels, names and purchases of the nearly 3.4 million users.
The clone websites could be used to display people's scraped data, scam people, and damage the credibility of the original site.
Ireland’s privacy watchdog has fined WhatsApp a record 225 million euros ($267 million) after an investigation found it breached stringent European Union data protection rules on transparency about sharing people’s data with other Facebook companies.
The clarification comes on the backdrop of reports on impact of data breaches in organisations such as Air India, Big Basket and Domino's which claimed that these breaches have exposed email accounts and passwords of NIC emails to the hackers.
According to the experts, the leak cost Dominos the data of 18 crore orders. Hackers have even put the data on sale on the dark web.
The online network for working professionals, LinkedIn recently suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 500 million users were leaked on a popular hacker forum. According to Mashable India, the leaked data consists of personal sensitive information including email IDs, workplace information, contact numbers, full names, account IDs, social media account links, gender details, and more.
Singtel, an associate of Bharti Airtel, has completed initial investigations into the breach and established which files on the Accellion file transfer appliance (FTA) were accessed illegally, reported Channel News Asia on Wednesday, citing the company's news release.
Over 22 billion records were exposed worldwide amid 730 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2020, a new report revealed on Friday.
BigBasket provides services in 25 cities and towns across the country, offering to deliver 18,000 products from 1,000 brands through the year.
In a potential data breach, details of around 2 crore users of grocery e-commerce platform Bigbasket may have been leaked, news agency PTI quoted cyber intelligence firm Cyble as saying. The company said that a hacker has put data allegedly belonging to Bigbasket on sale for around Rs 30 lakh.
The data belonged to millions of patients and could be accessed by anyone and even misused by people with malicious intents
The leaked data included four different datasets with information such as the profile name, full name, images, age, gender, account description, and profile statistics
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