Monthly Archives: September 2018

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Tor launches official anonymous Android browser

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Credits: ABC News

Tor is coming to Android.

The popular anonymization technology will arrive on Google’s mobile operating system with the release of a mobile Tor Browser, Tor Project developers announced on Friday.

Although there has long been a slate of third-party mobile Tor apps, the […]

By |September 8th, 2018|Cyber News|

British Airways was in talks with IBM on outsourcing security just before hack

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Credits: theregister

Exclusive Just weeks before being hacked in late August, British Airways’ parent IAG was planning to outsource its cybersecurity to IBM, admitting it needed a “group-wide strategic and proactive approach” to counter threats.

The Register has learned, from a leaked internal memo, that BA was […]

By |September 8th, 2018|Cyber News|

SIM fraud: Bank, telco to pay co director Rs 4.5 lakh

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Credits: TOI

The principal secretary, state IT department, has directed Dena Bank and to pay nearly 2.3 lakh each to a company after fraudsters transferred 10 lakh from its account using a duplicate SIM card. The funds were transferred to different banks in […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

Hacker uses ProtonMail VPN. Hacker DDoSes ProtonMail. Hacker gets arrested.

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Credit: ZDNet

A major OpSec mistake led to the arrest of a hacker part of a hacking crew that launched DDoS attacks against ProtonMail, Tutanota, and many other sites through the summer.

The hacker is a 19-year-old teenager named George Duke-Cohan, from Hertfordshire, UK. Duke-Cohan […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

British Airways boss apologises for ‘illicit’ data breach

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Credits: BBC

Alex Cruz told the BBC that hackers carried out a “sophisticated, malicious criminal attack” on its website.

The airline said personal and financial details of customers making bookings had been compromised.

About 380,000 transactions were affected, but the stolen data did not […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

North Korean programmer Park Jin Hyok charged over cyber attack on NHS

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Credits: ABC NEWS

A computer programmer has been charged in the US with working for the North Korean state in a series of notorious cyber attacks, including the WannaCry ransomware that crippled the NHS.

The FBI also accused Park Jin Hyok in connection […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

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Credits: krebsonsecurity

mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text messages, contacts, […]

By |September 6th, 2018|Cyber News|

ELON MUSK IS BROKEN, AND WE HAVE BROKEN HIM

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Credits: wired

OF ALL THE striking things about the interview with Elon Musk The New York Times published Thursday night—the tears, the lack of regrets over certain tweets, the fact that rapper Azealia Banks may somehow be part of Tesla’s financial future—was Musk’s claim that he’d be ready […]

By |September 6th, 2018|Cyber News|

CHINA IS USING CYBERESPIONAGE AGAINST U.S. TO GAIN MILITARY AND TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGES, REPORT REVEALS

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Credits: newsweek

Chinese cyberespionage costs U.S. companies an estimated $300 billion annually and comprises the “single greatest threat to U.S. technology,” according to a new report by the Washington, D.C-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

China is using its vast cyberespionage capabilities […]

By |September 6th, 2018|Cyber News|

Highly Flexible Marap Malware Enters the Financial Scene

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Credits: threatpost

A newly discovered downloader malware has been discovered as part of a new campaign primarily targeting financial institutions.

Researchers at Proofpoint said today that the downloader – dubbed “Marap” after its command-and-control phone-home parameter, “param,” spelled backwards – is notable for its […]

By |September 6th, 2018|Cyber News|