Tag: Cybersecurity
Google launches new programme to stop Covid-19 scammers
Google has launched a new programme called Scam Spotter to spot and stop scammers who are exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic with alarming speed, taking...
India-based firms spoofing WHO to hack global business leaders: Google
Several India-based firms are spoofing the World Health Organisation (WHO) by creating fake Gmail accounts and luring business leaders in disguise of informing them...
Trust lacking within the cybercriminal underground: Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated has released new data on cybercriminal operations and patterns for buying and selling goods and services in the underground. Trust has...
Indian Truecaller users’ data on sale, company denies breach
After an online intelligence firm flagged that a cybercriminal was selling Truecaller records of 4.75 crore Indians on dark web for just about Rs...
McAfee uncovers Flood of attacks on corporate cloud accounts as companies Work from Home
McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today released a new research study titled ‘Cloud Adoption & Risk Report – Work-from-Home Edition’. The report uncovers a...
20% online user in APAC ready to sacrifice privacy for freebies: Kaspersky
More than one-fifth of online users in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region are still willing to sacrifice their privacy to gain a product or...
Customers’ data of 3 crypto wallets, 1 investment platform hacked
A hacker who was behind the cyber attack on Ethereum.org is now selling data tied to key cryptocurrency wallets like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger and...
8 bn Internet records on millions of Thai users leaked
A security researcher has alerted Thailand's national computer emergency response team, known as ThaiCERT, after he found a database exposing over eight billion Internet...
Zoom to forcibly install 5.0 update with encryption post May 30
Video meet app Zoom has announced that after May 30, all its clients on older versions would receive a forced 5.0 update when trying...
83% online users think up their own, weak passwords
Highlighting the need for storing passwords, cybersecurity researchers have found that that 83 per cent of online users are thinking up their own, weak...