Who can forgot the Stuxnet. This is the cyberattack which actually got the inspiration for new generation of cybercriminals. This cyberattack was first discovered in 2010 by Sergey Ulasen. This virus was one of the targeted virus which takes almost 5 years to get developed. The Stuxnet is a virus whose history has been associated with one of the known cyberattack in Iranian in the nuclear program of Iran which is an another theory to be said that it is developed jointly by United States and Israel. It is a virus that directly targets programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which allow the automation of electromechanical processes such as those used to…
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OUTLAW BOTNET AFFECTS MORE THAN 20,000 LINUX SERVERS
DDOS attacks are emerging day by day. We know that DDOS attack is simply sending lots of packets to the remote server that server is not able to handle, thus making it unresponsive . In short, we test the limits of the remote server . But this group changed the definition . Coming back to 2018, Trend Micro Researchers unveiled a new group named Outlaw Botnet. In 2018, this group targeted Japanese art institution as well as a Bangladeshi government site over a vulnerability on Dovecot mail server. They have been involved in these cyber criminal activities for past couple of years. This time again they regain their presence and…
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LINKEDIN IS SPYING ON THE CLIPBOARD.
Over the last one week, there has been controversy in the market that Tiktok is spying on your clipboards. Some security researchers and organizations found out that some other apps are too doing the same which raises security concerns for the end user. This is just because of the new ios14 feature which exposed these apps. Privacy is a big concern to all of us in today’s time. We can spend a lot of money to keep our privacy intact but we just can’t let any company to secretly spy on our private data. The GDPR consent which users signs either he visits a website or signs up in an…
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RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ARE SELLING DATABASE OF THEIR TOURISTS
The headline must be really very scary for you and the details will leave you astonished. We trust legal authorities that at least they will keep our data safe but this huge happening had made this statement a myth. After reading the article , you will be afraid to share your details even with legal authorities . This worldwide lock down has hit many industries . These industries includes Tourism as well. This lock down has led many people across world jobless. As a result, many people are going towards wrong ways to earn living. One of the largest telecom provider in Russia, Rostelecom told RBC that from March to…
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THE RETURN OF CHINESE FAKESPY
Back in mid-2018, Trend Micro researchers revealed a campaign that was targeting Japanese and Korean Speaking users with a trojan or we can say infostealer named as Fakespy. This campaign impersonates the end user of being a legit banking app but ended up delivering trojan in the target user’s device. Following this campaign, today some researchers from Cybereason unveiled this campaign which has revived with more capabilities of affecting its users. Now this campaign is not only targeting the Korean users, but it is affecting users all around the world, especially users in countries like China, Taiwan, France, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, and others. This campaign targets its users…
