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Morgan Stanley to offer bitcoin swap trading

Another of the world’s largest investment banks is quietly building a product that will allow its clients to trade bitcoin, at least indirectly.Morgan Stanley, the sixth-largest bank in the U.S. by...

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42 Million Emails And Passwords Uploaded To A Free, Public Hosting Service

 A database comprising of a collection of a total number of 42 million records was uploaded on an anonymous file hosting service kayo.moe. recently. The collection included unique email addresses and...

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Cold boot attacks can affect nearly all modern computers

Many people tend to put laptops to ‘Sleep’ instead of shutting it down. Whether you’re at home, or at your workplace, leaving desktops and laptops unattended might have become a habit. A cybersecurity...

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Obsfuscation: Another Cyber-crime Contrivance to Bypass Antivirus Software

A malware sample that was unearthed recently, goes about changing the overall signature when the final payload is delivered via the obfuscation technique which succeeds to dodge anti-virus facilities....

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A new CSS snippet can crash and restart your iPhone, iPad

A security researcher has discovered a new way to crash and restart any iPhone or iPad devices instantly by using a simple few lines of code.The code could be easily spread over email or through social...

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Cyberworld on Rewind Mode: New Phishing Attack Stealing Passwords Using Old...

The phishing world has been on rewind mode as old tactics are making periodical comebacks; using an old trick, a new phishing campaign is attempting to steal sensitive information from users like their...

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CBI writes to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica on illegal data harvesting

The Central Bureau of Investigation in India has written to Britain-based consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research (GSR), and Facebook asking them to hand over the information...

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2 arrested in Uttarakhand for whatsapp char on killing Defence minister

Two persons were arrested on Monday from Uttarakhand over an exchange of messages on WhatsApp discussing a plan to allegedly kill Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her visit to the...

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Focus on HMRC as Many Targeted Through an Email Phishing Campaign

A new phishing attack discovered by Malwarebytes is said to be from under a new campaign, utilizing an old trick with an end goal to steal login credentials, payment details and other sensitive data...

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Investing in the digital economy - A Special communication network for...

The Russian government approved the national program "Digital economy" and allocated 1 trillion rubles (217 billions $) from the Federal budget for the implementation of the presidential task — in six...

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Students, staff may be behind many college cyber-attacks

A security analysis of cyber-attacks against universities and colleges in the UK has discovered staff or students could often be responsible, rather than organised crime or hacking groups who are often...

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Dark Mode On WhatsApp!

In its next software update, WhatsApp is all set to let loose to the world, fresh features like Dark Mode which would turn the icons and the screen to a darker shade and would boost the battery life....

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Quick Heal finds over 180 million threats to Windows OS

Global Internet security firm Quick Heal Technologies has detected more than 180 million threats on desktops and laptops with Windows Operating System in India.According to the quarterly threat report...

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New Xbash Malware: A Deadly Fusion of Ransomware, Botnet, Cryptominer

With cryptocurrency once again making the headlines, a new malware called Xbash has been found at Palo Alto Networks by the researchers. The malware is reported to be a deadly fusion of botnet,...

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MongoDB's insecure database exposes 11 Million email records

A security researcher found an unsecured MongoDB's customer database containing personal details of 11 million users. In the initial investigation, it appears that the database belongs to an email...

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Wordpress Websites Compromised; Injected With JavaScript Code

A recent decision from Google to prohibit technical support advertisements from unverified operators leads to the trading off of thousands of Wordpress websites on the while being injected with...

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Windows secretly collects sensitive data via Handwriting Recognition tool

Windows has a built-in tool for improving its own handwriting recognition capability, and like many modern, smart features that increase their accuracy over time, it employs user data to do that....

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US State Department’s email breach leaks employees’ personal data

Data breaches are not unusual in this day and age. In fact, the frequency of such incidents makes them look like the norm. However, it becomes more alarming when things go wrong at government...

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Latest Cyber-Crime Prey: The Port of Barcelona

Cyber-criminals attacked the Port of Barcelona on Thursday morning disrupting a few of its servers and systems. The attack shook the organizations on a superficial level but thanks to the contingency...

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Hacker sentenced to 2 years in prison for Cryptojacking

The Ukrainian hacker modified the software and as a result sold the malicious program for cryptocurrency mining.As it became known, the hacker was engaged in illegal activities and deceived not only...

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