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Piramal Group refutes data breach claims, terms dark web activity as false

Pharma to financial services conglomerate Piramal Group has denied any data breach in its system. A hacker on dark web last week claimed to be allegedly selling a database belonging to Piramal Group. When contacted, a Piramal spokesperson denied the claim. "We can confirm that there has been no data breach at Piramal Group. The suspicious activity on the dark web was evaluated and confirmed by our cybersecurity team as a false claim," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson said that as per the group's investigation, the sample data shared has no relevance to the group. "As per our investigation, the sample data shared is not Piramal Organization data and has no relevance to us. On further investigation, we have also found that the information in question seems to have originated from a third-party platform, Mailinator and not any of the systems at Piramal. Mailinator is not associated with Piramal Group in any form," the spokesperson said. Piramal Group has also shared the same

Canara Bank's official X account 'compromised', investigation underway

Bank advised users not to post anything on its X page. The bank page has 0.25 million followers

Leaked files show secret world of China's hackers for hire: Report

The offerings, detailed in leaked documents, were a portion of the hacking tools and data caches sold by a Chinese security firm called I-Soon

Breaches by Iran-affiliated hackers spanned multiple states: US officials

A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organisations breached in the US by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made, US and Israeli authorities say. The victims span multiple US states, the FBI, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, as well as Israel's National Cyber Directorate said in an advisory emailed to The Associated Press late Friday. They did not say how many organisations were hacked or otherwise describe them. Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, which discovered it had been hacked on November 25, said on Thursday that federal officials had told him the same group also breached four other utilities and an aquarium. Cybersecurity experts say that while there is no evidence of Iranian involvement in the October 7 attack into Israel by Hamas that triggered the war in Gaza they ..

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Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system

A Brazilian hacker claimed at a Congressional hearing on Thursday that former President Jair Bolsonaro wanted him to hack into the country's electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election. Walter Delgatti Neto did not provide any evidence for his claim to the parliamentary commission of inquiry. But his detailed testimony raises new allegations against the former far-right leader, investigated for his role in the Jan. 8 riots in the capital city of Brasilia. Delgatti also told lawmakers that he met in person with Bolsonaro and told the former president it was not possible for him to hack the electronic voting system. The Associated Press has reached out to Bolsonaro's lawyers who have not yet responded. Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoings. Bolsonaro's political nemesis, leftist Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, won the Oct. 30, 2022 election with just 50.9% of the votes. According to Delgatti, Bolsonaro had wanted the attempted hack to .

Once 'most wanted hacker', Kevin Mitnick passes away at the age of 59

Kevin Mitnick, once the world's most wanted hacker, was battling with pancreatic cancer. Known for data and credit card theft, he later became a renowned consultant and public speaker

China-based hackers breached European govt email accounts: Microsoft

A China-based hacking group has breached email accounts linked to government agencies in Western Europe, Microsoft Corp. says. In a blog post published Tuesday, Microsoft said the group, which it identified as Storm-0558, focuses on acts such as espionage and data theft. The group gained access to email accounts affecting about 25 organisations including government agencies and to accounts of individuals linked to these organisations, and had gone undetected for about a month until customers complained to Microsoft about abnormal mail activity. We assess this adversary is focused on espionage, such as gaining access to email systems for intelligence collection, Charlie Bell, Microsoft's executive vice president of security, said in a separate Microsoft post. The hackers carried out the breach by forging authentication tokens a piece of information used to verify the identity of a user required to access the email accounts. Microsoft has since dealt with the attack and informed ..

Google Workspace bug allows hacker to extract data from Drive without trace

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a significant forensic security deficiency in Google Workspace that enables a hacker to exfiltrate data in Google Drive without any trace

Hackers stole about $400 mn from crypto projects in Q1 2023: Report

The report also looked into the possible causes of the decrease in crypto attacks

Hackers target Bahrain airport, news sites to mark Arab Spring uprising

Hackers said they had taken down the websites of Bahrain's international airport and state news agency on Tuesday to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country. A statement posted online by a group calling itself Al-Toufan, or The Flood in Arabic, claimed to have hacked the airport website, which was unavailable for at least a half hour in the middle of the day. It also claimed to have taken down the website of the state-run Bahrain News Agency, which was sporadically unavailable. The group posted images showing 504 Gateway Timeout Errors, saying the hacking was in support of the revolution of our oppressed people of Bahrain. The same group appears to have hacked and changed articles on the website of Akhbar Al Khaleej, a pro-government newspaper in Bahrain, hours earlier. The newspaper's website was still down Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from authorities. Feb. 14, 2011, marked the first day of protests led by Bahrain's Shiite ...

ChatGPT helps hackers write malicious codes to steal your personal data

CPR shared screenshots of what they saw and warns of the fast-growing interest of hackers in ChatGPT to scale malicious activity

Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen by hacker, put for sale on dark web

The stolen data includes information about the WHO, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others

What can India Inc do to combat ransomware threat?

Flight operations of SpiceJet were hit after a ransomware attack recently. At least seven out of 10 Indian companies suffered from such attack last year. What can India Inc do to combat this threat?

Teen hacker claims ability to control 25 Teslas in 13 nations

The teenager didn't reveal the exact details of the software vulnerability, but said it wasn't within Tesla's software or infrastructure

Nintendo hacker settles Switch piracy lawsuit for $10 mn in restitution

Gary Bowser, a member of a group of hackers called Team-Xecuter, has been ordered to pay $10 million to settle a Nintendo lawsuit against him over piracy charges

Hackers hit over 4,000 e-commerce websites during festive sales

Hackers have hit more than 4,151 online retailers during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, stealing payment information and other personal information from customers

FBI says recovered $2.3 mn from ransom paid to colonial pipeline hackers

US law enforcement agencies seized a stash of bitcoins worth about $2.3 million believed to be the majority of the ransom proceeds from the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, the FBI announced

US nuclear agency, three states, Microsoft attacked by Russian hackers

The hack of the nuclear agency was reported earlier by Politico. Microsoft spokesman said the company had found malicious code in its environment

Information of over 100 mn individuals in US, Canada hacked: Capital One

The hacker did not gain access to credit card account numbers, but about 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised