DailyPost 1943 LEAKED SITES – A NEW FACET OF RANSOMWARE Restricting ransomware to ransom has already become something of the past, as ransomware rages the world as another pandemic, ripping apart businesses, utilities and critical infrastructure. The faith in our capability to run our own digital systems is today at its lowest ebb. Cyber criminals are […]
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DailyPost 1941 REvil DISMANTLED The global war on ransomware led by the US, declared in Oct 2021, seems to be showing its first signs of success. REvil is a ransomware group which has been dismantled by Russia at the behest of US. This can be taken as the first action of its kind, comprehensive and an
DailyPost 1934 OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) FRAMEWORK – THE ULTIMATE INVESTIGATIVE TOOL The complete transformation of mankind into its Digital Abode has left digital footprints far and wide and literally of everything we do. It also leaves behind meta data and innumerable other patterns, correlations and linkages of data, which can leave you awestruck. Today everybody
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DailyPost 1933 DEEP WEB / DARK NET INVESTIGATION When normal cyber-crime investigation is itself a challenge, where is the question of thinking of Darknet investigation. When asked to differentiate between Deep Web and the Darknet, can itself become a monumental challenge, the next logical question can never come to your lips. When nobody knows or nearly
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DailyPost 1928 THE SECOND DRONE AGE Before getting into the second drone age, a recap of the first one would not be out of place. The first drone age has been dominated by the US since its first attack using a remotely piloted craft in 2001. Few escapades since 2018 give us the nature of its
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DailyPost 1910 FLAW AFTER FLAW – Log4j The complexity of Cyber Security has always overawed at least since the time of Stuxnet, if not earlier. The recent rampages of ransomware has been the continuation and extension of the same saga. The Pegasus story the whole world is aware of and needs no elaboration. Suffice to say, today
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DailyPost 1906 Log4j It seems security has slowly been moved to the private domain. From the security point of view, everything seems to be normal on the face of it. Whatever happens in the cyber security area is still not a matter of concern in this country. The mindset of the watertight compartments of Security and
DailyPost 1904 BLACK CAT – NEW RUST-BASED RANSOMWARE Ransomware can beat COVID-19 at its own game; the mutants, the variants, the infection and plaguing the world with no solution. It is a war of attrition. While in the war against pandemic, we can see visible gains and better understanding and response with time, possibly these encouraging
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DailyPost 1896 PEGASUS CONUNDRUM -THE UNSEEN WAR Pegasus malware of the NSO group of Israel, has become a conundrum for sure. It is a well known global brand, feared for the damage it wrecks and appreciated for the technological wonder that it is. It is the biggest challenge as it stands today and a clear-cut killer
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DailyPost 1888 APPLE, PEGASUS AND PRIVACY Apple has sued the NSO Group in an earnest effort to curb the use of state-sponsored spyware. If we can recall the 2015 San Bernardino Case, a terror case with 14 killed and 22 injured, FBI and Apple got into an encryption dispute.* The phone in question was an
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DailyPost 1859 PEGASUS – JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”- George Orwell, 1984 This is how the judgement on the Pegasus saga started. Can there be any secret in the government which is known only to one person? The processes, the procurements, expenditure incurred and substantive
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