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Carryminati's second YouTube account was hacked recently and the hackers asked for bitcoin donations. Twitter responded with memes. ot long ago, Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent people including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Gates were hacked. All these accounts tweeted out a similar bitcoin message asking people to donate through a particular URL. Now, one of the most famous Indian YouTuber Carryminati aka Ajey Nagar is going through the same ordeal. His YouTube channel Carryislive was hacked during the early hours of Saturday. He took to Twitter to ask for assistance from YouTube. Nagar tweeted, “@YouTubeIndia My channel Carryislive has been hacked, need immediate assistance (sic).” Twitter account of YouTube India was also quick to respond and they left a comment that read, “We're really sorry this happened. Mind following us so we can continue with next steps over DM (sic)?” Similar to the Twitter hack, Carryminati’s Yo...

A top police official in Maharashtra informed on Tuesday that hackers based in China attempted over 40,000 cyber attacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure and banking sector in the last five days. Maharashtra police's cyber wing collected information about the hacking attempts and found out that most of them originated from Chengdu area in China. "According to our information at least 40,300 cyber attacks were attempted in the last four-five days on the resources in Indian cyberspace," PTI qouted Yashasvi Yadav, Special Inspector General of Police of the Maharashtra Police's cyber wing, as saying. Meanwhile, the central government has asked citizens to remain alert against a phishing attack on Sunday that could be used to steal personal and financial information in the garb of official communication on coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the phishing attack campaign by "malicious actor...

Truecaller data of 4.75 crore Indian users have been put on sale on the dark web for around ₹75,000, online intelligence firm Cyble reported. Truecaller however denied the report saying that there’s no breach on its database. The Truecaller data is from 2019 and the information available on the dark web has been categorised based on states, cities and carriers, Cyble said in a blog post. User information available includes phone number, carrier, name, gender, email address, Facebook ID and more. Cyble has also published the leaked details on its blog post. The security firm also suggested that this information trove will lead to scams, spams, and identity thefts. Truecaller on the other hand refutes the report and says that there’s no data breach as claimed by Cyble. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention. There has been no breach of our database and all our user information is secure. We take the privacy of our users and the integrity of our services extremely seriously and we ...

  A database of around 22 million users of Unacademy with contacts of employees of Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, Google and its investor Facebook is up for sale on the darkweb, according to US-based security firm Cyble. The company had suffered a breach in January following which contacts were put up for sale as recently as May 3 for $2000, the firm said. According to Cyble the database includes usernames, emails addresses, passwords, date joined, last login date, first and last names, account profile and account status (whether the account is active). Hemesh Singh, Co- Founder and CTO, Unacademy in a statement to ET said, "As per our internal investigations, email data of around 11 million users has been compromised as against 22 million stated in reports. This is on account of only around 11 million email data of users available on the Unacademy platform. We have been closely monitoring the situation and would like to assure our users that no sensitive information such as financial...

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected the ‘Login with Facebook’ button has earned a security researcher 15 lakhs. A indian cyber security researcher named Vinoth Kumar discovered a DOM-based XSS vulnerability in the technology that gives third-party websites the option to authenticate visitors through the Facebook platform. The security issue arose because of a flawed implementation of the postMessage API. Kumar described the technology is an underexplored avenue for security bug hunters, hence his decision to look into Facebook’s implementation. The researcher reported the issue to Facebook on April 17, three before days the social network resolved the security bug. Facebook paid out a 15 lakhs bug bounty for Kumar’s find on May 1.

STUXNET  is a malicious computer worm, first uncovered in 2010, thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets  supervisory control and data acquisition  (SCDCA) systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of IRAN Although neither country has openly admitted responsibility, the worm is widely understood to be a cyberweapon built jointly by the United States and Israel. Stuxnet reportedly destroyed numerous centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility by causing them to burn themselves out. Over time, other groups modified the virus to target facilities including water treatment plants, power plants, and gas lines. Recognition of such threats exploded in June 2010 with the discovery of Stuxnet, a 500-kilobyte computer worm that infected the software of at least 14 industrial sites in Iran, including a uranium-enrichment plant. Although a computer virus ...

A group of Hackers from San Francisco  have sold personal data of a whopping 267 million Facebook users for just Rs 41,500 (approximately 547 Dollar) that includes email addresses, names, Facebook IDs, dates of birth and phone numbers. Thankfully, no passwords of the 267 million Facebook users were exposed by the hacker, according to the cyber risk assessment platform Cyble. The Cyble researchers executed the sale and were able to download and verify the data. In December last year, reports surfaced that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online. The database was made available for download on an online hacker forum, according to a blog post on the website Comparitech. Do you have still faith in Facebook's ability to protect you privacy? Or do you just not care anymore?we need your opinion! Give us your opinion on comment section!