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WhatsApp Banned More Than 2 Million Accounts In India in a month, WhatsApp has confirmed that as many 2 million user accounts in India were banned on the instant messaging platform between 15th May and 15th June. This comes as part of the India’s Monthly Report under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The company revealed that it had banned 20,11,000 accounts in this one-month period. WhatsApp identifies Indian accounts via the country code +91 of the mobile phone number used to register. It also added that India alone accounts for 25 percent of all banned accounts in the world. The company identifies an Indian account via +91 phone number. Stating that more than 95% of such bans are due to the unauthorized use of automated or bulk messaging, the company added that these numbers have increased significantly since 2019 because its systems have increased in sophistication, and hence are detecting more accounts even as it believ

Apple preventing Chinese apps new user tracking method. Social media network TikTok tried to bypass Apple’s App Tracking Transparency measures, in coordination with some other Chinese tech companies, but Apple called their bluff. In the belief that Apple wouldn’t be able to block their apps, particularly in the Chinese region, apps including TikTok and QQ attempted to make the switch to Chinese Advertising ID, or CAID, to circumvent App Tracking Transparency measures that give iPhone users control over which apps can track their usage across the internet, and which can’t. The belief stemmed from the confidence that Apple wouldn’t be able to ban apps incredibly popular in China. Apple did exactly that, by blocking updates for apps enlisting CAID, from the App Store. The Financial Times reports that Chinese tech companies including Baidu, Tencent and Bytedance have been working to create a new way of tracking iPhone users, for the purposes of advertising. What is CAID ? The state-backed

Amazon Web Services Inc. said that it has acquired a startup called Wickr Inc. with an encrypted messaging app used by large enterprises and public sector organizations. AWS didn’t disclose how much it’s paying for the startup. San Francisco-based Wickr previously raised more than $50 million from investors. Amazon said in a statement it would incorporate Wickr in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division which offers cloud computing and other services. AWS will continue to offer Wickr services including end-to-end encrypted communications which meet certain regulatory requirements. Wickr’s encrypted messaging app of the same name is in use at organizations such as the U.S. Department of Defense, publicly traded financial firm Discover Financial Services and McKinsey & Co. The app uses end-to-end encryption technology to scramble messages, as well as their file attachments, in a way that makes it impossible even for Wickr itself to view their content. Every message is encrypted on the

New LinkedIn data leak exposed details of 92% of users. Professional networking platform LinkedIn has denied reports of a data breach that allegedly compromised the data of more than 700 million users. “Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed,” the company said in a note posted on its website. Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update.” The data was obtained by a hacker who exploited the official LinkedIn API. The hacker is currently selling the information online and posted a sample of the data on June 22, containing the information of 1 million users. The leaked user data includes email address, full name, phone numbers, physical address, geolocation, user name, profile URL, gender, social

Nigeria said on Monday it was in discussions with Twitter after it suspended the US social media giant’s services in the country, branding its use as “unpatriotic”. The Twitter suspension has provoked an outcry from the international community and rights groups who denounced it as a threat to freedom of expression in Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria announces talks with Twitter after ban, as Ecowas court bars government crackdown on users, Nigeria said it was halting the platform’s operations indefinitely on Friday, two days after Twitter deleted a comment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account referring to civil unrest that the firm said violated its rules.  “There are discussions ongoing with Twitter, we will see how that progresses, so I cannot say for now the duration of the suspension,” Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said after a meeting with diplomats on the issue. “There are conversations, yes, with our partners. We want to use social media for good.” Twitter has no

Google Delays Privacy Sandbox Initiatives, Continues Support for 3rd Party Cookies. Google announced that support for third-party cookies would be extended until late 2023, giving marketers more than a year extension from the previous plan to block third-party cookies by 2022. The Privacy Sandbox initiatives will be delayed while more testing takes place. Google said Thursday it’s pushing back its plan to kill off third-party tracking cookies in Chrome. It now expects to phase out cookies and replace them with tech from its Privacy Sandbox by 2023. The delay comes after Google pledged to give oversight of the cookie changes to the UK’s antitrust watchdog. “While there’s considerable progress with this initiative, it’s become clear that more time is needed across the ecosystem to get this right,” Chrome’s Privacy Engineering Director, Vinay Goel,  said  Thursday. Google first announced its intentions to kill off the tracking cookies, which advertisers use to track users around the web a

Facebook targeting Nigerian learners with educational app Sabee. From Facebook office in Lagos, Nigeria the first products to come out of this office: a mobile application aimed at education called Sabee, which means “to know” in Nigerian Pidgin. The app aims to connect learners and teachers in online communities to make educational opportunities more accessible. The app was briefly published on Google Play by the NPE Team, Facebook’s internal research and development group, which typically focuses on new social experiences in areas such as dating, audio, music, video, messaging and more. While NPE Team apps sometimes inform about wider efforts on Facebook, the group has not yet created an app to become a standalone Facebook product. Many of its earlier applications are also excluded, including (somewhat unfortunately) the online creator of zine, e.g. The Hobbi video app, the CatchUp app to call, Bump to find friends, the community app for podcasts and more. However, Sabee represents a

Russia bans VyprVPN, Opera VPN services in the country. Russia’s telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of these two VPN service providers describing them as threats. “In accordance with the regulation on responding to threats to circumvent restrictions on access to child pornography, suicidal, pro-narcotic and other prohibited content, restrictions on the use of VPN services VyprVPN and Opera VPN will be introduced from June 17, 2021,” the state agency  said  in a statement.” The watchdog said the services could be used to access illegal content, and only companies using them in “nonstop technological processes” would be able to continue doing so. The two VPN services were classified as threats based on regulations introduced by the Russian Federation Government with Decree No. 127 on February 12. After Roskomnadzor’s decision, Opera suspended support of VPN services in Russia, as Opera’s Senior Public Relations M

Twitter loses intermediary status in India, over non-compliance of new IT rules. The government sources on Wednesday said that micro-blogging platform Twitter has lost its intermediary status in India over non-compliance of the new IT rules formulated by the Government of Indian recently. As a result of the development, the company has lost its legal shield in the country from prosecution over it’s user posts. The sources further added that Twitter will be liable for the content when it comes to it being violative of any Indian law. “Twitter has lost intermediary status in India the moment they didn’t comply with new IT rules.” As per reports, Twitter will now be considered as the  editorial publisher of the content  that is shared on its platform instead of being considered as an intermediary platform. This essentially means that if any unlawful content is discovered on Twitter, the Indian government will hold the company responsible instead of the user who shared the content. Earlier

3.3 million US & Canadian Volkswagen customer data stolen. Volkswagen Group of America announced today (June 11, 2021) that more than 3.3 million potential and actual Audi customers in the U.S. and Canada had personal data exposed by vendor. At least some data was taken without authorization. Volkswagen and Audi, VW’s luxury brand, have been hit by a data breach that exposed the contact information and, in some cases, personal details, like driver license numbers & social security number of customers in the United States and Canada. 3.3 million people’s data was left unsecured on the Internet for over a year by the vendor. The breach stems from an outside vendor that Volkswagen, Audi, and some of their dealerships use. Gathered between 2014 and 2019, the data collected for marketing purposes. The company has reached out to 90,000 people in the US. Mostly Audi customers or shoppers, that included driver’s license numbers and, in a small number of cases, Social Security numbers,

EA hacked game source code and tools stolen. Hackers have broken into the systems of Electronic Arts, one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, and stolen source code used in company games. Hackers have stolen valuable information from major game publisher Electronic Arts (EA), the company said. The attackers claimed to have downloaded source code for games such as FIFA 21 and for the proprietary Frostbite game engine used as the base for many other high-profile games. News of the hack was first reported by news site Vice, which said some 780GB of data was stolen. The hackers claimed to offer “full capability of exploiting on all EA services.” They also claimed to have stolen software development tools for FIFA 21 and server code for player matchmaking in FIFA 22. Brett Callow, the cybersecurity expert and a threat analyst at Emsisoft, said losing control over source code could be problematic for EA’s business. “Source code could, theoretically, be copied by other developers or

150 million Covid vaccinated Indian people data leaked and put on for sell on the dark web. Data available at just $800 -$1000 on dark web. Update : It turnout to be a false data breach scare. Probably created for scamming via bitcoin payments. Because there is no proof of leak to be found no screenshot no data sample provided by the data sellers. Internet freedom has contacted many security expert and they said It’s most likely a scam. Yesterday, there was a false data breach scare after reports of a COWIN leak started rolling in. That was debunked. But we're making an appeal for you to pay attention here: Data breaches in India ARE rising. And our laws are not equipped to deal with them! This is why. -> https://t.co/NmM90ym2Fk — Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (@internetfreedom) June 11, 2021 We found It was first posted on 27th May by ‘mind8hunter’ on twitter. https://twitter.com/mind8hunter1/status/1397986701885132801 As per tweet posted by Dark tracer the dark web selle

Razorsecure, Hampshire cybersecurity startup got funding of £2M to solve security challenges in the rail industry. Razorsecure, a Hampshire-based cybersecurity software provider for the rail industry, has secured more than £2 million from the existing investors including, Enterprise M3 Growth Fund; Mainport Innovation Fund II, Wentworth Limited; and Breed Reply. To date, the company has raised £6 million in funding. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s growth and scale its products. Founded by Alex Cowan in 2015, RazorSecure provides a suite of products and services to protect rail companies from cyber-attack.  The company’s technology is powered by machine learning and designed to protect rolling stock, signaling, and infrastructure systems. RazorSecure’s solution detects how a system operates and identifies deviations as a possible threat.

Youtube shorts will let user sample audio from any youtube video. Like tiktok youtube short video creators can use audio from any youtube video. Being able to sample audio from other users’ videos is one of TikTok’s greatest strengths. It allows memes to percolate across the platform and lets users discover new content by watching videos with the same sound. Soon, YouTube will expand this feature in its TikTok competitor, Shorts, letting users sample sounds from  any  content uploaded to YouTube. There’s now an option to record 60-second Shorts in addition to the 15-second option. But users will not be able to add music from the YouTube library to 60-second Shorts. Shorts users can already sample sounds from other Shorts videos (as well as from a library of licensed music). The feature will attract YouTube users into its Shorts feature via a new “Create” button in the mobile app. Clicking it will give users the option to sample the video’s audio in Shorts. YouTube launched its TikTok-l

Twitter operation suspended in Nigeria. The statement announcing Twitter’s ban was announced today (4th June 2021) on Twitter via Nigeria’s ministry of information and culture Twitter handle. Nigeria’s information and culture minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed announced Twitter’s suspension in a statement by his media aide Segun Adeyemi. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria,” Mohammed said. The Nigerian government’s spokesman said “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence” as the reason for the suspension. Today’s announcement is a culmination of events that have happened this past week. Yesterday, Twitter deleted tweets and videos of President Muhammadu Buhari making threats of punishment to a sect called IPOB in the South-Eastern part of the country after he blamed them for attacks on government buildings. He then refe

Pakistan temporarily banned social media. Pakistan government on Friday ordered 4 hours-long shutdown of social media and instant messaging platforms after days of violent anti-France protests. It comes a day after French nationals and companies in Pakistan were advised by their embassy to temporarily leave in the wake of rallies led by an extremist party that paralyzed large parts of the country and left two police officers dead. In a notice to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the Interior Ministry requested a “complete blocking” of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Telegram until the middle of the afternoon. Pakistan authorities have used strategic social media bans and cuts to mobile service in the past in an attempt to head off major protests. Earlier this week Pakistan banned the Islamist group Tehrik-i-Labaik Pakistan after arresting its leader, which prompted protests, according to local media reports. Thousands of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) supporter

MobiKwik Indian user data leak Reportedly MobiKwik exposed the KYC details and personal information of its close to 3.5 million users. All of this information is on sale for 1.5 Bitcoin, which is near equals to $85,000, according to reports. The company, however, has denied any such breach. According to a security researcher, on the 29th of March, the well-known digital wallet and payment company Mobikwik had been leaked on the dark web. the data breach leaked sensitive information. Payment app MobiKwik on Monday came under news headlines for an alleged data leak that has exposed close to 8.2 terabytes(TB) of data. These include the user’s Know-Your-Customer (KYC) details, Aadhar card, phone number, address, and other personal information. About 3.5 million users worry not only their credit and debit card details are available on the dark web. But their Mobikwik account number details, names, email addresses, passwords, GPS location, and mobile phone details like IMEI have also been h

pCloud The App Store privacy analysis finds Instagram, Facebook’s most invasive apps, and Signal app among the safest to use. By using Apple’s new privacy labels featured in the App Store, Cloud storage company pCloud  decided to take a deeper look into the mobile apps to find the most invasive overall iOS users interact with the most to determine which ones share the most personal they identified which apps share the most private data with third parties  pCloud takes a look at the most invasive apps collecting data from users, Instagram, Facebook, Uber Eats and more: The most invasive apps on iOS and Signal and Clubhouse Safest to Us According to data collected by p-Cloud, Signal messaging app, Clubhouse, Microsoft Teams, Netflix, Skype, Telegram, and Google Classroom collect no data at all, and Facebook and Instagram are among the topmost invasive apps that collect and share user data with third-party vendors. As per pCloud, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn collect the most personal

China blocks encrypted messaging app Signal, Signal users in China reported issues sending or receiving messages, which went away when they used a virtual private network. Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China. Also services like Face-book, Google and Twitter have been blocked for years in China.                        Popular encrypted social media app Signal has become “unusable” for some in China,  The Wall Street Journal  reported Tuesday, suggesting that the app may have-  been blocked in CHINA.  Users in China said Tuesday that they could not get the app to connect without a virtual private network (VPN) service. Messages failed to send and calls did not goes on Tuesday The Chinese embassy in Washington, DC,  pointed to comments Tuesday  from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who said he was not aware of Signal being blocked in China. What I can tell you is that as a principle, China’s internet is open, and the Chinese government manages internet-related affair

Bounce Two Wheeler Rental startup has put Scooters on Sale. The main reason for this layoff and putting up bikes is the current Pandemic COVID-19 in the country. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and its resulting condition has caught much of the world off-guard. The COVID caused the overall economic situation in India. Lots of businesses have been affected by this pandemic. The company has been catering 35% of the total ride-hailing traffic till Nov- Dec 2020. despite the lockdown having ended in June. Bounce is a private rental bike service company. The Bounce company started as Wicked Rides in 2014 by Vivekananda HR, Varun Agni. Bounce was once valued at $450 million and had 600 persons on its rolls, is on an employee reduction spree. It is also learned that the company has lined up all of its two-wheelers for sale at an open ground near the Bharat Nagar Metro Station in Hyderabad. Bounce had earlier laid off around 130 employees or 22 percent of its staff in June 2020. Bou

Tinder in-app match background checks feature. Online dating app tinder will soon allow its users to run a background check on their possible dates. On March 15, 2021, Tinder’s partner company match group announced in a press release says that it has partnered with a background check platform Garbo to integrate the service into its platform. Tinder users will now check on their partners, regardless of their gender or sexuality. This feature is being introduced keeping the protection of women and marginalized groups in mind “For too long women and marginalized groups in all corners of the world have faced many barriers to resource and safety” told Tracey Breeden, head of safety and social advocacy.  If you are on tinder or planning to join the online dating app then here’s good news for you.  Tinder users will be able to look out the following about their matches- Arrest record Any violence history The previous record of conviction Violent crimes Drug possession But the report says that

Facebook to pay News Corp for news content in Australia News Corp says the deal of three-year agreement with Facebook, has agreed to pay for its Australian content will transform the terms of trade for journalism. The deal also includes extending an existing agreement between Facebook and Sky News Australia, part of News Corp, has also reached a new agreement with Facebook which “extends and significantly builds on” an existing arrangement. The three-year deal comes weeks after the Australian government passed laws that aim at making tech platforms pay for news content. In a statement Tuesday, chief executive of News Corp Robert Thomson said the agreement, which he called a “landmark,” in transforming the terms of trade of journalism, and will have a material and meaningful impact on our Australian news businesses. ,  Last month Facebook restricted the sharing of news on its service in Australia. In defiance of the controversial proposed law that Facebook said the agreements would hel

Netflix to limit password sharing with friends and family. Netflix Is Testing New Feature That Prevents Users from Sharing Passwords for the streaming service for both business and security reasons. According to CNN reports the new feature is just a test and it is for the Netflix TV app users. CNN reported when a user-selected their profile on a shared Netflix account, a pop-up comes on the screen and asks them to verify the account by confirming with a text or email sent to the account holder. Viewers have the option to delay the verification and keep watching Netflix. The message may reappear when they open Netflix again, eventually a message pop-up on the screen to required to open a new and account to continue streaming. A Netflix spokesperson told CBS Money Watch that “This test is designed to help to ensure that people using Netflix are authorized to do so” Netflix’s terms of service say users can stream content “for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared

SAMSUNG Galaxy A52 AND A72 price leaked In India Samsung galaxy A72 and Galaxy A52 could be launched on March 17, Samsung is rumored to launch a 5G and a 4G variant of the Galaxy A52 with a similar feature. The prices of the Samsung Galaxy A52 are expected around Rs. 26,499 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant, while for 8GBRAM/128GB variant the price could be Rs. 27,999. DISPLAY      6.5-inch Full HD+ 2400 x 1080 pixels. BATTERY 4,500mAh.   REAR CAMERA primary 64MP camera with an f/2.0 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 123-degree field-of-view, 5MP macro camera & 2MP depth sensor. FRONT CAMERA 32MP Selfie camera. REFRESH Rate.    – 120Hz (5G), 80Hz(4G.) GPU Adreno 619(5G), Adreno 618(4G). PROCESSER Octa-core  Snapdragon 720G(4G), Octa-core Snapdragon 720G  (5G). Samsung Galaxy A52 5g Specifications The phones will likely run on Android 11 based One UI 3.0 and has a micro SD card slot for storage expansion. The Galaxy A52 5G is likely powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon

Tik Tok prohibited in Pakistan for immoral content and peddling vulgarity, by Peshawar High Court. Peshawar high court prohibits short-video platform for peddling vulgarity, immoral and objectionable content Peshawar HC says Tik Tok will remain shut till company corporate with PTA on immoral content Tiktok App banned in Pakistan for the second time. Last year in October PTA had blocked the Chinese video-sharing app. However, Ten days later the PTA overturned its decision after it was told by TikTok that the app would Block all Accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality. The journalist and commentators Najam khan said that tiktok not banned because of immoral content, but because tiktokers are pingun of the great leader The social network has faced numerous hurdles around the world recently. In January, HC Find that Videos uploaded on tiktok are not acceptable For Pakistani society. recently the app has been installed by over 40Million times in Pakistan. The regu

Netflix to launch Rs 299 plan in India. Netflix will charge Rs 299 a month for a “Mobile+ plan”. According to an Economic Times report, Netflix in India has brought this new entry-level plan on a pilot basis.  Netflix has named this plan ‘Mobile +’. Currently, this plan is in the testing period. In this period, Netflix will charge Rs 299 per month for this plan. Netflix is ​​trying to increase its user base with this cheap plan. New Netflix Mobile+ plan, allows users to stream content on just one device at a time. However the Mobile+ plan allows users to stream on a computer/laptop as well in phone and tablets. Spokesperson of Netflix told to BGR India “We launched the mobile plan in India to make it easier for Netflix. We want to see if members like the added choice Mobile+ brings. We will only roll it out long-term if they do get positive response.Netflix had fewer than half a million subscribers. Today, it has 203.66 million paying members. And the company’s market cap is well over

Apple takes a forward step in iPhone manufacturing in India, and giving a boost in ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. Apple might soon start iPhone 12 production in India. Apple confirms local manufacturing of  IPhone 12 in India soon. Currently apple is producing 6 products in India iPhoneSE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7,iPhone XR, and iPhone11 in India APPLE iPhone 12 is the 7th model to be manufactured in India. Apple has confirmed that it will start manufacturing IPhone 12 in India. The company is said to manufacture iPhone 12 at Foxconn’s facility in Tamil Nadu. APPLE contracts manufacturers have a deal to produce “ upto $ 40billion worth of smartphones” in India, With the local production of iPhone will get benefit of decreas on the 22% import taxes and create new job opportunities for locals in India The Apple company is doubling its market share in India in this Quarter, apple has shipped over 1.5 Million iPhones units in India. The iPhones currently producing in the Narasapura plant located in the

Mozilla blocking third-party cookies Total cookie protection is also known under the technical term state partitioning is supposed to prevent cross-site cookie tracking probably the most common method for web tracking. To better understand what has changed. Let’s look at how cookies were managed before, When you browsing the web, Visited websites can store cookies in the browser which are mostly used for saving logins and settings. When the same advertising network has ads embedded on multiple websites. They can set and read their cookies on each of those websites and therefore collect a list of sites that each browser (of course User) has accessed in the past. This easy tracking method was partially made harder over time by, for example, blocking third-party cookies, but blocking all third-party cookies can break some websites with legitimate users like single sign-on services from Google or Facebook Or embedded content like tweets. That’s why Firefox doesn’t block all third-party coo

Indian users are not receiving OTP’s, other transactional, promotional and notification messages are also affected. OTP and SMS Notifications not working telemarketing companies are heavily affected. Bulk SMS service provider are facing high rate of message delivery failure. All company or service providers using SMS based OTP or transactional SMS for notifying users are facing this problem. Users are not able to order foods from food delivery apps many bank users are unable to complete their online payment because OTP is not delivered to their registered mobile even some govt related services are also heavily affected by this. There is some reports that Indian government COVID vaccination registration app COVAXIN is also affected. Users are complaining on Twitter and Facebook that they are not receiving OPT’s and notifications. And we have come to know these all issues are because of TRAI has made DLT registration mandatory for telemarketing and every service provider companies which

WIPRO acquires CAPCO for 1.45 billion dollar. This acquisition will help WIPRO expand business in Europe and Asia. Wipro announced acquisition of London based consulting firm Capco from $1. 45 billions. This acquisition will make Wipro one among the most important end-to end global consulting, technology and transformation service provider to the banking and financial services industry. And this will help have access to 30 new large BFSI clients. New clients from banking, and insurances. This will increase Wipro margin 2% in first year and it will improve in future due to revenue and cost efficiency . Wipro believes there are significant synergies to be realized through cross-selling. This is Wipro’s largest acquisition ever, will also give the Indian tech services giant a strong consulting footprint. The company can now patriciate in large transformational deals given consulting expertise. And more importantly its signals more aggressive go-to-market approach for Wipro. Wipro aims to

WhatsApp is rolling out support for voice and video calling to its desktop app, the Facebook-owned messaging service said Thursday. Like WhatsApp’s mobile app, voice and video calls on the desktop equivalent are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only the people conversing have access to the contents of a call. As it stands, one important difference on desktop from the mobile experience is that, Only one-to-one calling is currently supported, although WhatsApp says they will soon add group voice and video calling to desktop in upcoming months after testing this one to one calling feature. It’s supported on desktop version for now but, support for voice and video calls is not being extended to WhatsApp Web, the browser version of the WhatsApp. Like the 100 billion messages that WhatsApp processes on its platform each day, voice and video calls are also end-to-end encrypted, it said. A user need a WhatsApp account in mobile app in order to use it in desktop a user can not use only desktop Wh

Cyber security researchers have uncovered a Campaign of attacks by Chinese hackers targeted to Tibetan activists via a malicious new Firefox extension. Allegedly Chinese state-sponsored hacking group TA413 The Crusade was targeted against Tibetan dissidents and at its core implemented a felonious Firefox plug-in spread by an email address known for impersonating the Dalai Lama himself. The reason why Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups might want to Target. Ins is obvious. China controls Tibetans, The Tibetans, aren’t happy about it? Thus Tibetan dissident groups exist. And as you can imagine the Chinese States really doesn’t like them. TA413 is a hacking group aligned with Chinese Communist party interests. If it’s not directly State controlled. There isn’t much out there about TA413, but they’ve been linked to the lucky cat and Exile rats malware exonerate It’s all started a few weeks ago when Tibetan organizations started receiving phishing emails purporting to be from the Tibeta

China based cyber criminals or maybe state sponsored Chinese hackers are targeting Indian power grid just to show that they can. Investigation by multiple online security company has found, that the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector. The attack was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and expert analysis. Who are these Chinese Hackers? These attacks were done using ShadowPad, which is one of the largest known supply-chain attacks, according to cybersecurity firm  Kaspersky . It is a obscured background malware, which hides inside legit software. Once activated, it allows attackers to access the victim system in order to install more malicious software or steal important data. On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, trains were stopped on tracks, causing covid hospitals to run on emergency power backups and hitting the stuttering economic a

OPPO RENO5 F HAS A DISTINCT DESIGN AND A NICE SITE OF SPECIFICATIONS The Reno5 F probably has an 6.4 inches, 98.9 cm2 OLED display with an in-display fingerprint scanner. After all, the power key is protruding from the right-hand side. The volume keys probably are placed on the other side. An OLED panel will not be a first for the Reno5 series. After all, this is a premium mid-range smartphone lineup from Oppo. The big icing on the cake of Reno phones is that they are cheaper than other premium smartphones from Oppo. As specification’s mentioned in comparegadget website It may have quad camera (48mp, 8mp, 2mp 2mp), and 16mp front selfie camera. with LED flash, HDR, panorama, video capture at 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps. It may come with 128GB 6GB RAM, 128GB 8GB RAM variant. with 4310 mAh battery capacity. Compare this gadget with your device list on your wish list at comparegadget

The highly-sophisticated supply chain attack ever, Which targeted SolarWinds may be result of a Intern’s poor choice of password. Current and former top executives of the Texas-based software services SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went unnoticed for years. The said password “solarwinds123” of a intern was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since 17, June 2018, before the misconfiguration was addressed on 22, November 2019. In a hearing before the House Committees on SolarWinds on Friday, CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna testified that the password had been in use as early as 2017. Till date, at least nine govt agencies and 100 big private sector companies have been breached in what’s being described as one of the most sophisticated and well-planned supply-chain hack that involved injecting the malicious implant into the Orion Software Platform with the goal of compromising its custom

The government of West Bengal an Indian state govt website exposed the test result of millions of people who took Covid-19 test. The website is part of govt mass testing program and the system works like this. They will send the sms to patient with the url to see their test results which contained the base64 encoded unique autoincremented number which is unique for every test which can be guessed by anyone. Anyone with basic knowledge about base64 encoding can change that parameters and can see all the test result listed on website which supposed to be visible to only patient. The result contain name, age, gender, address and test result negative/positive. Govt has taken site offline since end of February and currently it’s offline.

Chinese companies are facing increasing difficulties doing business overseas due to Chinese law and control of CCP over companies. And relation with India is worsening in recent years where some Chinese companies are performing good. Xiaomi is biggest smartphone make in India for 12 consecutive quarters, Recently loosing this title to Samsung and anybody can guess it’s linked to increasing tension between two neighbor country India and china. In order to please the Indian govt. Xiomi is trying to  further ramping up production in India by adding two new supply chain partners, BYD and DBG company announced publicly on company blog. Saying they are goin to increase manufacturing capacity by 20% with this new partnership. This move can be seen as Chinese companies are trying hard to prove that they can provide Indian customer locally manufactured products. They are claiming they are more Made in India product than some other Indian companies. It’s also profitable for company to make thin

Facebook has said soon it will start restoring the news sharing feature on users feed, After reaching to an agreement with Australian govt. Last Wednesday the Facebook had made a radical move of banning the news outlets website links from sharing on the platform which caused outraged. That move comes after a feud over a proposed media bargaining code that is expected to become a law in country soon. Which would have forced the tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. to pay news publishers for the content shared by users on their platforms. Facebook move to restoring the news feature has come after Australian treasurer Josh Frydenberg said changes have been made in the proposed law to “provide further clarity to digital platforms and news media businesses about the way the Code is intended to operate and strengthen the framework for ensuring news media businesses are fairly paid for the content. The changes means the proposed law will allow a two-month negotiation periods to