The govt of India has taken a strategic move to safeguard the JEE (Mains) 2025 examination from potential cyber threats. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) deployed its elite cyber commandos to ensure a smooth and secure conduct of the test. This proactive step was taken following concerns raised by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), particularly after the UGC-NET exam was scrapped…
A sophisticated cyberattack campaign is targeting organizations that still rely on Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) for authentication across applications and services. The phishing campaign is exploiting Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) and take over user accounts, allowing threat actors to commit further malicious activities across networks that depend…
Hackers target Chrome browser extensions 16 extensions being compromised Exposed over 600,000 users to data exposure and credential theft The attack targeted publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store via a phishing campaign Hackers used their access permissions to insert malicious code into legitimate extensions in order to steal cookies and user access…
Junior Barros De Oliveira, a 29-year-old resident of Curitiba, Brazil, has been indicted in the United States for orchestrating an extortion scheme involving data stolen from the computer systems of a Brazilian subsidiary of a New Jersey-based company. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced the charges after the indictment was unsealed in Newark federal court. Allegations of…
The U.S. government on Tuesday unsealed charges against a Chinese national for allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao), who is said to have worked at Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company, Limited, has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and conspiracy to commit…
Fidelity Investments has confirmed that it suffered a major data breach to US authorities. In its filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the US-based asset manager said the incident, which occurred in August, exposed the personal information of more than 77,000 customers. Fidelity Investments added that it had commissioned external security experts…
Star Health India’s biggest health insurer, on Saturday said it had received a ransom demand of $68,000 from a cyberhacker in connection with a leak of customer data and medical records. Star, which has a roughly $4 billion market cap, is battling a reputational and business crisis since Reuters reported on Sept. 20 that a…
North Korean hackers have conducted a global cyber espionage campaign in efforts to steal classified military secrets to support Pyongyang’s banned nuclear weapons programme, the United States, Britain and South Korea said in a joint advisory on Thursday. The hackers, dubbed Anadriel or APT45 by cybersecurity researchers, are believed to be part of North Korea’s…
India’s largest crypto exchange, WazirX, has been hacked, resulting in the transfer of cryptocurrencies worth over ₹1,900 crore to an anonymous wallet. Republic Business has reached out to WazirX for confirmation of the total loss, but the exchange has yet to respond. The hacker swapped Tether (USDT), Pepe tokens, and GALA into Ether. Blockchain data…
The ransomware is rudimentary with basic functionalities, likely having been created by an inexperienced developer — but it’s effective at locking up files and sucking up memory capacity. A ransomware strain coined “ShadowRoot” has been found targeting Turkish businesses through phishing attacks. The phishing emails contain a PDF attachment disguised as an invoice with embedded…
