Hackers demanding money to return your data is common. But hackers demanding policy changes from a corporation is unheard of. A ransomware group called BlackCat which claimed responsibility for hacking Reddit’s systems earlier this year did just that. The hacker group is now demanding what Reddit moderators and users who have been up in arms over. A change to Reddit’s recently announced API pricing policy.
21 Jun 2023Sreeram KL and Sivanesh Ashok, two Indian hackers, have written in a blog post that they tried to find bugs in Google’s software, specifically in the Google Cloud platform. The blog post mentions that they were new to the platform and were exploring it when they identified a problem in one of the features known as ‘SSH-in-browser’.
1 min read21 Jan 2023You would be surprised to know that the overall crime rate in the state of Hyderabad has increased by 4.4% and this rise is mainly because of the 57 percent increase in cybercrime. That’s right. In India in 2021, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka collectively accounted for half of all cybercrime cases. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences experienced a weeks-long interruption in critical services in November as a result of hackers invading its systems. Millions of patient records had their data hacked. Scary, isn’t it?
19 Jan 2023The Chinese hacking group, which Microsoft calls Hafnium, appears to have been breaking into private and government computer networks through the company’s popular Exchange email software for a number of months
5 min read7 Mar 2021Systems that are secure today may not be tomorrow. Here’s what cybersecurity experts say could be a future focus for attacks.
9 min read9 Oct 2020Santiago Lopez, a 21-year-old ethical hacker who shows corporations their cybersecurity fails, expects to keep going for years to come
4 min read5 Oct 2020Twitter previously said the attackers tweeted from 45 accounts and downloaded mass data from eight accounts
1 min read23 Jul 2020The hackers targeted Twitter employees to gain access to its internal tools, which is unlike usual cyberattacks that tend to exploit vulnerabilities in a platform’s code
1 min read20 Jul 2020OnePlus offers a bug bounty upto about ₹4.9 lakh to security experts who discover, report potential threats to OnePlus’ systemsThe firm has partnered with HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform as part of its efforts to better protect users from cyber threats
1 min read19 Dec 2019While the US and UK accounted for two-thirds of it of attacks, a new report by Group IB suggest that Indian users are among the most affectedThe report claims that 98% of the details belong to Indian banks and more than 18% of the 5.5 lakh cards they analyzed belonged to a single Indian bank they did not name
2 min read31 Oct 2019The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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