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Category: Online Fraud

YONO App: Another Lead to Online Banking Scam

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022

India loses 100 crores, every day to bank fraud as per the RBI in the past seven years. The YONO app introduced by the State Bank of India has now been counted as a scammer in the world of banks. Starting from the fraud that happened in Kerala where people were getting spurious messages about […]

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 A Report on username changing Accounts on Twitter

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022

People often use usernames for their profiles to own a recognized account on Twitter. But sometimes the search for one username leads to no results. This may happen due to change in usernames of such profiles. In this exclusive report we have covered the username changing Accounts. Twitter sees a lot of changes in usernames […]

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Co-location Scam, The biggest stock market scam in India?

April 2, 2022April 2, 2022

The biggest stock market scam has already taken place or the matter is yet to discover? Under the co-location scam member of Lok Sabha, Arvind Sawant stated the amount of 75000 crores and a journalist who filed public interest litigation to SEBI-Technical Advisory gave the amount of 50,000 crores. The Securities and Exchange Board of […]

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Sextortion: A Prevalent Online Scam in India

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

An elevation of 11% was witnessed in the year 2020 regarding cyber crime. In the year 2022, fifty thousand cases were registered against cyber crime in India as per the data. Online fraud has become a global threat as 518 million users are using social media in India.  Nowadays, cases like phishing, online booking fraud, […]

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Hacked installed malware detected on website selling nobility titles

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

The Principality of Sealand is a small island nation in the North Sea and its government maintains and sells nobility titles such as ‘duke’, ‘duchess’ and ‘count’ on its website as a source of revenue for the nation.   It was recently found that a threat actor installed a malware on the website that steals […]

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Ransomware attacks are spreading far and wide within India

November 25, 2021November 26, 2021

 According to a new report, hackers are targeting senior citizens and middle aged people on apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Hackers are targeting these people through Ransomware attacks.  In the report, TikTok is also one of the apps that is being used by the hackers to launch the attacks.  According to a researcher from […]

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GoDaddy data breach, over 1.2 million WordPress site owners affected

November 23, 2021November 24, 2021

 GoDaddy is a giant internet infrastructure company which offers services to internet businesses. On November 22,2021 the company released a statement that a hacker was able to get hold of 1.2 million WordPress site owners who use their services.  The investigation that followed, revealed that the hacker had access to this information since atleast September […]

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Fake ransomware attacks target 300 WordPress websites

November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

The security firm Sucuri found that hundreds of WordPress websites were targeted with ransomware attacks. These websites were defaced over the weekend with a message saying that their websites were locked and demanded 0.1 bitcoin( Rs.4,34,817.31) to be transferred to an account.  The attackers also added a time limit to the exchange causing a lot […]

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Crypto finance company robbed of $55 million by hacker

November 9, 2021November 18, 2021

bZx is a decentralised finance platform that lets its users conduct trade of cryptocurrencies. On Friday, the company released a statement that a hacker had robbed the platform of $55 million dollars in crypto assets causing a huge loss to the platform. In a preliminary report released mere hours after the attack detailed how this […]

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Google finally tackles phishing scams that targeted Youtubers all around the world

October 24, 2021November 18, 2021

Since 2019, Youtubers from all around the world were being targeted by phishing scams that made them lose control of their social media accounts. The accounts that were being hijacked were consequently being sold online for very minimal prices. Google has a Threat Analysis Group (TAG) which on October 20,2021 posted a report on the issue […]

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