Tag: Hacking

This is the sixth zero-day vulnerability Chrome has faced to date this year.

The threat actors have been targeting the Indian government's portal by utilising a bogus URL to trick users into submitting sensitive information such as credit card numbers, expiration months and CVV codes, according to AI-driven cyber-security firm CloudSEK.

The Twitter account of BJP chief J.P. Nadda was hacked briefy on Sunday morning. The account, however, was restored later on.

How Careless SIM Card Handlers Become Easy Target Of Cyber Fraudsters? Expert Explains

Once installed, the Joker malware immediately begins spying on the user’s phone, steals information and sends it back to the hackers remotely.

Three quarters of Indian gamers (75 per cent) among those surveyed experienced cyber attack to their gaming account, most commonly detecting malicious software on a gaming device (35 per cent) and detecting unauthorised access to an online gaming account (29 per cent).

Balasore: A youth with criminal antecedents was hacked to death by two miscreants near Electric Office square on OT Road in Balasore town today. The youth has been identified as Kunu Panda, brother of gangster Papa Panda. According to sources, Kunu was travelling on a motorcycle when the two miscreants chased him and hacked with […]

Banki: The website of Banki Autonomous College in Banki in Cuttack district was found hacked this morning. As informed by the college authorities, after they opened the website, the homepage of the website was found missing and in its place there was a picture of a boy with a heading ‘Website stamped by Xposer and […]

With the official websites of four government institutions and over 10 websites in Odisha having been hacked in the last six months, a cyber expert has said though there has been no financial loss to any of these websites, the possibility of hackers making fresh attempts on these and other sites cannot be ruled out

Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police on Tuesday said it will file a chargesheet against city-based engineering student Tarini Prasad Roy, who had hacked the official website of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) four days back. “After arrest, we have released him (Roy) on a personal recognizance (PR) bond. There was no need to forward him […]

Bhubaneswar: Hours after confirming that some students might be involved in the hacking of the official website of Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), a student of the city-based private engineering college went to the Khandagiri police station and accepted his involvement in the crime. The student has been identified as Tarini Prasad Samantray. […]

  The Supreme Court website crashed on Thursday amid reports that some Brazilian hackers may have targeted it. “Site under maintenance,” read the message on the landing page of supremecourtofindia.nic.in. “This site can’t be reached,” said another message on the page of the website maintained by the government-run National Informatics Centre (NIC) that creates e-governance […]

San Francisco: After revealing last year that a data breach in 2013 affected its one billion user accounts, Yahoo has now announced that all of its users — nearly 3 billion at that time — were impacted by the massive hacking. Yahoo, now part of Oath — a subsidiary of American telecommunications conglomerate Verizon — […]

Jerusalem: Israel-based cyber security firm Check Point has detected a malware that is not downloaded due to users’ use but is already present in Android device. According to a company blog post last week, the pre-installed malware was detected in 38 Android devices, belonging to a large telecommunications company and a multinational technology company. “The malicious […]

London: Spies at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have called an emergency summit with Britain’s political parties after warning them that the next general election is vulnerable to cyber attacks by the Russians. Ciaran Martin, chief executive of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has written to leaders of all the main political parties offering expert […]