India

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024
Smishing Triad Is Targeting India To Steal Personal and Payment Data at Scale

Resecurity has identified a new campaign by the Smishing Triad that is targeting India to steal personal and payment data at scale Resecurity (USA) identified a new campaign targeting India Post (Department of Posts, India) by the Smishing Triad, which reportedly started amplifying around July 8, 2024, based on multiple victim reports and the detection […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2024
Cybercriminals are targeting elections in India with influence campaigns

Resecurity warns of a surge in malicious cyber activity targeting the election in India, orchestrated by several independent hacktivist groups Resecurity has identified a spike of malicious cyber activity targeting the election in India, which is supported by multiple independent hacktivist groups who arrange cyber-attacks and publication of stolen personal identifiable information (PII) belonging to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2024
750 million Indian mobile subscribers’ data offered for sale on dark web

Data of 750 million Indian mobile subscribers was offered for sale on dark web hacker forums earlier in January. CloudSEK researchers warned that a database containing data of 750 million Indian mobile subscribers was offered for sale on dark web hacker forums earlier in January. According to the researchers, at least two cybercrime gangs, CYBO […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2023
BMW dealer at risk of takeover by cybercriminals

By neglecting to set a password, a BMW dealer in India has jeopardized the entire network of car dealerships in the country and put its clients at risk. The Cybernews research team has discovered that the Bengaluru branch of BMW Kun Exclusive, a BMW dealership in India, has exposed sensitive data to the public. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2023
Resecurity: Insecurity of 3rd-parties leads to Aadhaar data leaks in India

Data leaks containing Aadhaar IDs in India were caused by the insecurity of 3rd parties while aggregating such information for KYC. According to Resecurity, a global cybersecurity provider protecting Fortune 500 companies and governments globally, one of the key issues leading to data leaks containing Aadhaar IDs in India is the insecurity of 3rd parties […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2023
National Logistics Portal (NLP) data leak: seaports in India were left vulnerable to takeover by hackers

The National Logistics Portal (NLP), a newly launched platform to manage all port operations in India, left public access to sensitive data, posing the risk of a potential takeover by threat actors. On September 24th, researchers discovered that the NLP platform was exposing sensitive credentials, secrets, and encryption keys via publicly available JS files. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2022
Indian foreign ministry’s Global Pravasi Rishta portal leaks expat passport details

The Cybernews research team reported that India’s government platform Global Pravasi Rishta Portal was leaking sensitive user data. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/indias-foreign-ministry-leaks-passport-details/ The Global Pravasi Rishta Portal, India’s government platform for connecting with its overseas population, leaked sensitive data, including names and passport details. The Cybernews research team has been alerted that the Global Pravasi […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2021
China-linked RedEcho APT took down part of its C2 domains

China-linked APT group RedEcho has taken down its attack infrastructure after it was exposed at the end of February by security researchers. China-linked APT group RedEcho has taken down its attack infrastructure after security experts have exposed it. At the end of February, experts at Recorded Future have uncovered a suspected Chinese APT actor targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2021
Police Exam Database Exposes 500K Indian Citizens ’ PII

CloudSEK has discovered a post on a well-known database sharing forum advertising the PII of 500,000 Indian citizens. While the threat actor does not mention the name of an organization, the data provided in the sample is clearly associated with a police exam conducted on 22 Dec 2019.  Discovery of the leak CloudSEK’s proprietary risk […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2020
October Mumbai power outage may have been caused by a cyber attack

Authorities in India believe that a major power outage that occurred in October in Mumbai may have been caused by hackers. On October 13, a major power outage occurred in the metropolitan area of Mumbai causing the partial disruption of the traffic management systems and the paralysis of the rail traffic and also impacted work […]