With more than 11,000 athletes from 206 countries participating, the world is watching the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with great enthusiasm. But, unfortunately, while the Olympics showcases the very best in sporting talent, it also has a history of attracting cybersecurity threats from those seeking to cause politically motivated harm, make easy money, spread […]
Introduction With each passing day, the world is waking up to new global cybersecurity challenges. The latest one was unearthed this month. Move over SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, and REvil ransomware. It is now time for Pegasus! Pegasus is spyware that aids in cyber-espionage developed by the NSO Group of Israel. Recent investigations reveal that […]
Big Ticket Data Breaches How do they go undetected for so long? Introduction July 15, 2020 – PII Data of around 270 million Wattpad (a social storytelling website) users’ was leaked by an unknown hacker. The hacker released private data in public forums. According to researchers, the breach happened in June 2020. March 30, 2021 […]
Introduction “For those on the ramparts of the world’s sole superpower, the digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triumphant glow of the post-Cold War,” reads the tagline for the article titled, “Farewell to arms,” by journalist and writer, John Carlin. The article that delves into the potentially devastating effects of cyber-warfare became […]
Trigger Warning – Abuse, Stalking, Death She runs through an endless corridor of darkness, confused and helpless. Her heartbeat racing, her mind on overdrive. Why would he? How could he have known? How did he access her information? Her text messages, images, contact details, chats, places where she had visited, recordings of her phone calls […]
Note: This is a technical deep-dive into DearCry ransomware. If you want a preliminary analysis of the ransomware, you can find it here. The Network Intelligence team initiated a Static analysis of the ransomware sample we received. The team used a tool called PEstudio, which helps in the static analysis of executable files. Static Analysis […]
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