November 21, 2024
CyberSecurity

Meta Reportedly Fires Dozens of Employees in 2022 for Hijacking Users’ Facebook and Instagram Accounts

Meta Reportedly Fires Dozens of Employees for Hijacking Users’ Facebook and Instagram Accounts Meta is the new hype these days. Education, the fashion industry etc are stepping into this world. But the new world i e, Meta is not safe from cyberattacks. Meta Platforms is said to have fired or disciplined over two dozen employees […]

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Indian Entrepreneur Invited By US Vice President, Discusses Cyber Security

Indian Entrepreneur Invited By US Vice President, Discusses Cyber Security Indian tech entrepreneur Trishneet Arora has shared his vision to deal with the growing menace of cyber security with US Vice President Kamala Harris during aTrishneet Arora, the CEO of TAC Security, was invited by Kamala Harris to the gathering in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During […]

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CDSL services down due to cyber attacks

CDSL services down due to cyber attacks Settlement services at Central Depository Services (India), the country’s largest depository by way of active demat accounts, were affected on Friday due to cyber attacks. Brokers said services such as pay-in, pay-out, pledge, or unpledged securities for margin were down due to system failure at the CDSL. However, […]

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Many financial institutions say their own IT staffs pose the biggest risk to cloud security

44% of financial institutions say their own IT staffs pose the biggest risk to data security in the cloud. A follow-on to a report released earlier this year, this deep dive into the financial sector also found that 32% of financial organizations experienced accidental data leakage compared to the average of 25% in other verticals. […]

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Russia’s cyber personnel has ‘underperformed’ in Ukraine:

U.S. Defense official said that Russia’s cyber personnel underperformed during Ukraine’s initial invasion A senior Pentagon official on Wednesday said that Russia’s cyber personnel “underperformed” during the initial invasion of Ukraine, prompting it to ultimately rely less on digital attacks during the now months-long conflict than was expected. Speaking at the Aspen Cyber Summit, Mieke […]

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Chinese Hackers Using 42,000 Imposter Domains in Massive Phishing Attack Campaign

The threat actor have registered over 42,000 imposter domains A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. “It targets […]

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DSCI CEO: National security, building cybersecurity products on our agenda

‘Tremendous amount’ of data will be flowing into India, says DSCI The Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a group set up by IT services lobby group NASSCOM, has appointed Vinayak Godse as its chief executive officer (CEO) from October 1. Godse, in an interview with Sourabh Lele, spoke about cybersecurity for small businesses, the […]

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No guns, no guards, no gates.’ NSA opens up to outsiders in fight for cybersecurity

The NSA ’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is designed to bring NSA cyber analysts closer to outside threat hunters. The beige corridors and heavily guarded security perimeter of Fort Meade have been traded by many of the National Security Agency’s most talented cyberthreat hunters for a surprisingly located new office — in an unsecured suburban office […]

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Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Spotify’s Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform

Music Platform Spotify couldn’t stop from being a prey in the hands of cyberattack. Spotify’s Backstage has been discovered as vulnerable to a severe security flaw that could be exploited to gain remote code execution by leveraging a recently disclosed bug in a third-party module. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 9.8), at its core, takes advantage […]

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Malicious Google Play Store App Spotted Distributing Xenomorph Banking Trojan

Malicious apps finding its way into the Play Store Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. “Xenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users’ […]

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