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In recent times threat actors used data scraping methods to extract confidential data in a faster and efficient way like it was observed in the case of Facebook and Linkedin which was later put to sale on Dark Web.

“True Cybersecurity is preparing for what’s next, not what was last” – Neil Rerup, Cybersecurity Expert Passwordless authentication is widely regarded as the future of authentication. Passwords actually do more harm than good. Yes, you heard it right. Research says that an average internet user has more than 90 online accounts. Think about all the online accounts you have created for …

On may 14th, 2021, a message from a cybercrime forum believed to be from Darkside Admin read. A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part infrastructure namely the: Blog. Payment Server. DOS Servers. Now these servers are unavailable by SSH, the hosting panels are blocked. Hosting support, apart from  information “at the request of law enforcement agencies,” …

Last week we reported the colonial pipeline Ransomware Attack which eventually disrupted the operations for around 6 days and made the pipeline cough up $5 Million in Ransom. Darkside Ransomware Service, responsible for the attack has reportedly announced the closure of their affiliate program. DarkSide also said, they are releasing decryption tools for all of the companies that have been …

Dridex malware which has been hitting news in the last decade for different reasons is back in the news again. Dridex is also known as Bugat and Cridex. Checkpoint Research in a recent report highlighted that Dridex has maintained it’s position on the top of malware list in the month of April, 2021 with a global impact to 15% of …