DailyPost 2988 GLOBAL RANSOMWARE MASTERMIND ARRESTED That ransomware is the nuclear war head of cyber crimes is to state the obvious. Ransomware gangs remain the reigning king of the organised cyber crime syndicates. Their attack sends a chill down the spine of any organisation or government department / agency. The way money is generated out […]
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DailyPost 2976 CYBER FRAUD CHALLENGE -’ ROOTED DEVICES’ If you still feel that cyber is not the main arena of crime and police moving aimlessly in the physical world can stem the rot, then we are the farthest from reality. Accepting that Cyber Police would be the main police in the days to come, would
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DailyPost 2975 CRYPTO HACKERS JAILED When it comes to crypto currencies being laundered or used in crimes or for sale of drugs or hacking of crypto exchanges, the investigation throws up multifarious challenges; legal, tech, logistical and connected to geography, that an investigative success is like winning a war. Recently we heard of WazirX in
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DailyPost 2972 THE CRYPTO HEIST The nature of this crypto heist might be comparable to the Bank of Bangladesh, Central Bank of Bangladesh way back in February 2016 and is still remembered in the history of cyber security globally. Crypto was supposed to be immutable but is now under fierce attack, with a few notable
DailyPost 2968 CRUCIAL DEFENCE UNIT UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK We keep speculating about the state of cyber security in India given the fact that barely anything authenticated or validated comes out in the public domain either vetted by the government or the organisation(s) in question. There is still no legally mandated standardised breach reporting system in
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DailyPost 2965 CACTUS TO CLOP TO HELLCAT Very rarely a topic can be so intriguing. It would really take an effort to unravel it, but certainly very doable given the quantum of information available on the public domain, more so related to IT / cyber security. Without making it a riddle, the simple answer is
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DailyPost 2958 LAZARUS EXPLOITS GOOGLE CHROME VULNERABILITY To call Lazarus the al-Qaeda of cyber security would be an apt for the manner in which they have shook the hacking world. It is believed to be a prop of the North Korean government to proactively carry on its agenda of cyber crime / hacking as a
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DailyPost 2955 DIGITAL ARREST – CAN WE STEM THE DIGITAL ROT Taking the name of a government agency surreptitiously and making some ill-gotten money or playing the government middlemen and disappearing is quite a known form of crime. The coming of the digital age ushered in a new set of crimes generically called cyber crime.
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DailyPost 2951 CICADA3301 RANSOMWARE If you go by the research being conducted in the field of ransomware, it would certainly be amongst one of top areas of computer science, albeit it used on the wrong side of the law. If you take it as development to successful production and upgrade, that too with crazy timelines,
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DailyPost 2937 AIR-GAPPED SYSTEMS BREACHED While we keep getting news of breaches / hacks every now and then, from small to big to critical and massive, air gapped systems breach certainly are way above ordinary. It can have repercussions which can be far reaching, way beyond commercial or reputational damage. Air gapped systems is a
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DailyPost 2936 DIGITAL ARRESTS – ‘THE ADVISORY RESPONSE’ Take a hypothetical crime scenario of gunpoint robberies happening all across the country, with the same modus operandi, similar gangs, and being publicised as well. In which manner the police and government would have reacted? Did it not call for immediate and effective action? Take the next
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