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This collaborative analysis suggested an evolution of IoT botnets, from a nearly exclusive use case of launching DDoS attacks to more sophisticated activities such as ransomware distribution and crypto-mining. (Photo: Pixabay)

Importance of information sharing in battle against cyber threats

Layered analysis of cyber data, including DNS queries, leads to stronger protection against DDoS, malware, and botnet...

30 April 2018 2:41 PM IST

Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined logs and network traffic of applications in the internal Android Sandbox to uncover which applications transmit unencrypted user data to networks over HTTP.

Millions of apps risk data leaks due to third party code

Deeper analysis of apps show that data is sent unencrypted over HTTP, which means it is unprotected when it travels to...

24 April 2018 2:35 PM IST

Kaspersky Labs findings indicate that the attackers behind the malware seek out vulnerable routers for compromise and distribute the malware through a simple yet very effective trick of hijacking the DNS settings of those infected routers.

New Roaming Mantis malware affecting smartphones in Asia: Report

The Roaming Mantis malware checks if the device is rooted and requests permission to be notified of any activity...

19 April 2018 2:37 PM IST

In a typical targeted cyberattack, a threat actor once inside the attacked network establishes a foothold and then collects valuable information to subsequently transfer to the command and control server (C&C).

Symantec analytics enables to uncover most sophisticated cyber attacks

AI and machine learning innovations automate capabilities of Symantec's investigations team to zero in on the most...

18 April 2018 2:43 PM IST

Kaspersky Lab also detected a peak of threat activity in the Middle East. For example, the StrongPity APT launched a number of new Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) attacks on internet service provider (ISP) networks.

Asia, Middle East a hotbed of new threats: Report

According to experts, routers will continue to be a target for attackers as a way of getting a foothold in a victimÂ´s...

17 April 2018 2:16 PM IST

Moscow denies any meddling in the 2016 elections to help Republican Trump win.

Reddit takes down accounts suspected of ties to Russian propaganda

The company said 316 posts from the Russian accounts were made on the popular pro-Trump page.

11 April 2018 8:45 AM IST

Security is ensured by the unique property that quantum correlations can only be shared between the devices that created them, ensuring no hacker can learn the key.(credit : Pixabay)

Arizona election database targeted in 2016 by criminals, not Russia:...

US officials have repeatedly said publicly that at least 21 of the 50 states had experienced initial probing from...

9 April 2018 11:59 AM IST

$Facebook on Thursday admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were \potentially affected\ by its global data breach.$ Technology

Facebook to send Cambridge Analytica data-use notices today

87 million users, who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica, will get a detailed message on their...

9 April 2018 7:41 AM IST

Facebook: Most users may have had public data 'scraped'

Facebook is shutting down a feature that let people search for Facebook users by phone number or email address.

6 April 2018 8:32 AM IST

An innocent looking message could be all that is needed to compromise on your privacy- accessing your microphone, your call logs, your locations, your bank details and everything that is very personal to you.

Is your smartphone snooping on you?

Allowing third-party applications access to your smartphone's data puts your information at risk.

2 April 2018 2:08 PM IST

Fears of battery drain make Apple ban cryptocurrency mining.

Seqrite battles ransomware, Cryptomining

The multipurpose ransom-miner was detected by experts when they observed a series of evolved malware blocked.

27 July 2018 5:32 PM IST

Security is ensured by the unique property that quantum correlations can only be shared between the devices that created them, ensuring no hacker can learn the key.(credit : Pixabay)

Singapore says hackers stole 1.5 mn health records in cyberattack

Singapore's health and information ministries said a government database was broken into in a deliberate, targeted and...

22 July 2018 8:38 AM IST