Indo-Pak cyber war continues: Patriotic Indian hackers continue to damage crucial Pakistani websites. They have been defacing Pakistani Govt. websites and launching Ransomware attacks. Pakistan has been responding and at least 50 IT companies in Hyderabad have come under cyber-attacks from Pakistan-based hackers over the past 10 days, the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) revealed. The Cyber Security Forum ...

Cyber strikes after surgical strikes: After India announced its Surgical strike in Pakistan, Pakistani hackers have responded by defacing several Indian websites. Some of the reports suggest as many as 7000 sites were defaced. Indian hackers responded by launching Ransomware attacks on several Pakistani networks. Indians have managed to render several Pakistani networks unusable. In many cases they are not ...

Yahoo confirms ‘state-sponsored’ hackers stole personal data from 500m accounts: Hackers stole the personal data associated with at least 500m Yahoo accounts, the company confirmed last week. Details including names, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers and security questions were taken from the company’s network in late 2014 by what was believed to be a state-sponsored hacking group. The company is ...

About 100 FreeCharge clients lose money after cyber-attack: FreeCharge is e-wallet payment app, based out of India. Last week, Nearly 100 customers of FreeCharge lost Rs.10,000 ($150) each, across the country in cities like Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi only to be restored later as the e-wallet’s system met with a phishing attack. The attacks happened between June and August 2016. ...

Russia’s largest portal hacked; nearly 100 million plaintext passwords leaked: Another data breach from 2012, and this time, it’s Russia’s biggest internet portal and email provider Rambler.ru. The portal suffered a massive data breach in 2012 in which an unknown hacker managed to steal nearly 100 Million user accounts, including their unencrypted plaintext passwords. The leaked user records in the ...

1.      Dropbox hacked: Hackers have obtained credentials for more than 68 Million accounts of online cloud storage platform Dropbox from a known 2012 data breach. Last week, Dropbox sent out emails alerting its users that a large chunk of its users’ credentials that was obtained in 2012 data breach, may soon be seen on the Dark Web marketplace, prompting them ...

Scorpene leak: The Scorpene-class submarines are developed a French company called DCNS. A former French Navy officer who quit the service in the early 1970s and worked for French defense companies for more than 30 years before becoming a subcontractor to DCNS – copied sensitive data from DCNS along with a French colleague and took it to a Southeast Asian ...

NSA’s hacking group hacked! Bunch of private hacking tools leaked online: Last week, unknown hackers calling themselves “The Shadow Brokers,”  hacked into NSA (US Intelligence agency)– and dumped a bunch of its hacking tools (malware, private exploits, and hacking tools) online. The hackers are offering to sell more private “cyber weapons” to the highest bidder. The files mostly contained installation ...

Data Breach — Oracle’s Micros payment systems hacked: Oracle has confirmed that its Point-of-Sale (MICROS) division has suffered a security breach. Hackers had infected hundreds of computers at the division, infiltrated the support portal used by customers, and potentially accessed sales registers all over the world.  It is likely that hackers installed malware on the troubleshooting portal in order to ...

Telegram Hacked: Reuters and several media outlets are reporting that the phone numbers of 15 Million Telegram users in Iran have been compromised by Iranian hackers exploiting a SMS text message flaw. The attack targeted Telegram’s one-time SMS activation and not its end-to-end encryption. Telegram sends an SMS with a verification code to users who want to log in to ...