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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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2020

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Modi was hacked

The Twitter account of the Indian Prime Minister Modi was hacked, attackers sent a series of tweets asking followers to donate cryptocurrency to a relief fund. The Twitter account for the personal website of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi_in) has been hacked. The hackers have sent a series of tweets asking the followers […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2020

A flaw in India Digilocker could’ve been exploited to bypass authentication

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could’ve Been Accessed Without Password The Indian Government fixed a flaw in the secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially allowed anyone’s access without password. The Indian Government announced to have fixed a critical vulnerability in its secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially allowed a remote attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020

Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments. Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab gathered intelligence on the return of Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later Introduction The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2019

It’s official, administrative network at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was infected with DTrack

The news is shocking, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) that initially denied a malware infection, now admits the security breach. Yesterday a worrying news made the headlines, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) was hit by a cyber attack. Some users are claiming on the social media that a piece of the ‘DTrack’ malware has infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2018

Mobile Malware Campaign targets users in India through rogue MDM service

Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware distributed through a bogus MDM service Security experts from Talos Team have uncovered a “highly targeted” campaign leveraging a mobile malware that has been active at least since August 2015. The researchers believe that cyberspies are operating from China and they found spying […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2018

City Union Bank is the last victim of a cyber attack that used SWIFT to transfer funds

The Indian bank Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank announced that cyber criminals compromised its systems and transferred a total of US$1.8 million. During the weekend, the Russian central bank revealed a new attack against the SWIFT system, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. Even if the SWIFT international bank […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2017

Reliance Jio systems allegedly hacked. It should be the biggest breach of personal data ever in India

Data allegedly stolen from the Reliance Jio systems were available online, It should be the biggest breach of personal data ever in India. The week starts with the news of another clamorous data breach, personal details of some 120 Million customers of the Indian company Reliance Jio were exposed. If it will be confirmed, the incident is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2017

Information Security Practices of Aadhaar – 135 Million Indian government payment card details leaked

A CIS study estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through 4 gov portals could be around 135 million and 100M bank account numbers. The Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric ID system, with over 1.123 billion enrolled members as of 28 February 2017. The role of the system is crucial for both authenticating and authorizing transactions and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2016

Employee’s Provident Fund organisation, India website found INSECURE

Security firm’ Eioneus Systems’ claims to have found a serious security flaw in Universal Account Number(UAN) website (India). In a recent incident an information security firm’ Eioneus Systems’ claims to have found a serious security flaw in Universal Account Number(UAN) website (India) which could have led to the theft of millions of user’s data. Eioneus Systems […]

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October Mumbai power outage may have been caused by a cyber attack

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Modi was hacked

A flaw in India Digilocker could’ve been exploited to bypass authentication

Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

It’s official, administrative network at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant was infected with DTrack

Mobile Malware Campaign targets users in India through rogue MDM service

City Union Bank is the last victim of a cyber attack that used SWIFT to transfer funds

Reliance Jio systems allegedly hacked. It should be the biggest breach of personal data ever in India

Information Security Practices of Aadhaar – 135 Million Indian government payment card details leaked

Employee’s Provident Fund organisation, India website found INSECURE

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