Google trying to stop the reuse of passwords

Direct Source: theverge.com Fifty-two percent of people reuse the same password for multiple accounts, according to the results of a poll published in February 2019 by Google and polling firm Harris. Thirteen percent of people reuse that password for all of their accounts, that poll found. And Microsoft said in 2019 that 44 million Microsoft accounts used logins that had been […]

Amazon mitigates largest DDOS attack

In February 2020, one of the clients of Amazon AWS was targeted with a DDOS attack. DDOS stands for distributed denial of service and is a very common type of cyber attack, but what took many people by surprise was the scale of the attack. For the first time on the internet, the network volume […]

Attacks from China

A bloody face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of eastern Ladakh led to the martyrdom of 20 Indian soldiers late on Monday night. “Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged at the Galwan area where they had earlier clashed on the night of 15/16 June 2020. 17 Indian troops who were critically injured […]

Malware circulating- Alert by Google

Source: Techradar.com Fraudsters are using black SEO, Google Sites and spam pages to push fake data breach notifications impersonating big name companies in an effort to distribute malware and scams. As reported by BleepingComputer, Google Alerts help to spread these fake notifications as the service monitors search results looking for user-defined keywords. To spread their malware, […]

Book of Facebook Identities on Dark web

One of the threat actors have dropped an online bomb by dropping the identities of 267 Million Facebook Users for 500 Euros — the details include their EMAIL, FNAME, LNAME, PHONE, FACEBOOK ID, LAST CONNECTION, STATUS, AGE. Cyble researchers executed the sale and were able to download and verify the data. The impacted users will be able to […]

LinkedIn linked to dark web

LinkedIn began in co-founder Reid Hoffman’s living room in 2002 and was officially launched on May 5, 2003. Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions under the leadership of Ryan Roslansky. In December 2016, Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn, bringing together the world’s leading professional cloud and the […]

Yatra’s voyage to dark web

Yatra Online Pvt Ltd based in Gurgaon India, is one of India’s leading online travel companies and operates the website Yatra.com. The company provides information, pricing, availability, and booking facility for domestic and international air travel, domestic and international hotel bookings, holiday packages, buses, trains, in city activities, inter-city and point-to-point cabs, homestays and cruises. As […]

80K Credit Cards for sale on dark market!

Cyble’s researchers came across a data leak that involved detailed information of over 80,000 credit cards put up for sale on the darkweb market on May 28. This dump of credit cards consists of credit card details of various countries. According to their research team the split of credit cards as per the country is […]

Indian’s Truecaller records leaked!

The Swedish caller identity app, Truecaller, is popular among the Indian users. The app provides a set of features to smartphone users including call-blocking, flash-messaging, caller-identification, call-recording, and Chat & Voice services. Cybersecurity research firm Cyble reported that unknown hackers are selling personal information of 47.5 million Indian users of Truecaller, on May 26, a […]

Data breach at Unacademy

 Unacademy which is India’s largest education platform based in Bangalore is changing the way to learn. In a span of 6 months, over 300,000 students have benefited from over 2,400 online lessons and specialized courses on cracking various competitive examinations, on our platform. They have onboard some of the top educators in the country. They originally started […]

Attacks and Loss!!

Remember one of the questions from Introduction?? Any kind of these (cyber) attacks happened before? Yes!! The world has been experiencing attacks and risks since years. Happened might be good or bad, we should remember. So, let’s look into some of the attacks… Adobe in October 2013 announced the massive hacking of its IT infrastructure. […]