The “leakiest” countries in 2023 were India, the United States, Brazil, China, and others. The IT sector was the most affected, accounting for 65.9% of leaked secrets, followed by education at 20.1%, and other sectors making up the remaining 14%.
Cybercriminals are using a massive network of hired mules in India and an Android-based money transfer application to launder illicit proceeds, researchers have found. According to an investigation by the Singapore-based cybersecurity company CloudSEK, the money mules — who are recruited to receive and then quickly transfer funds to obscure their origin — are managed […]
Cybercriminals are using a network of hired money mules in India using an Android-based application to orchestrate a massive money laundering scheme. The malicious application, called XHelper, is a “key tool for onboarding and managing these money mules,” CloudSEK researchers Sparsh Kulshrestha, Abhishek Mathew, and Santripti Bhujel said in a report. Details about the scam […]
Teenpatti.com and (Mobile Premier League)Mpl.live, two prominent online gaming platforms in India, may have experienced a data breach. Allegedly, a cybercriminal known as ‘roshtosh’ has put up for sale data claimed to be stolen from these platforms. The online gaming data breach, disclosed on January 22, 2024, following the threat activity on January 20, 2024, […]
Android smartphone users in India are the target of a new malware campaign that employs social engineering lures to install fraudulent apps that are capable of harvesting sensitive data. “Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to lure users into installing a malicious app on their mobile device by […]
Anti-Phishing, DMARC , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Under Fire: US, UK and India; Attackers Often Wield DarkGate Info-Stealing Malware Jayant Chakravarti (@JayJay_Tech) • October 20, 2023 Image: Shutterstock Cybercrime groups in Vietnam are targeting the digital marketing sector in the United Kingdom, United States and India with multiple malware strains, […]
National Logistics Portal (NLP) data leak: seaports in India were left vulnerable to takeover by hackers Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2023 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 […]