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Government Makes Cybersecurity Audits Mandatory for Crypto Exchanges Due to Rising Risks
India has made cybersecurity audits mandatory for cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and intermediaries following a surge in cyber heists. The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) has directed firms to hire CERT-In-approved auditors as part of compliance under the PMLA. Industry leaders welcomed the move as a step toward stronger safeguar...
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Did Jaguar Land Rover Lose 40,000 New Cars? Here's The Truth
A recent report suggested that JLR has lost track of 40,000 new cars while dealing with cybersecurity issues.
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JLR Production Halt Extended Until September 24 Over Cybersecurity Breach
The Tata Group owned brand said that the global operations remain disrupted as investigations into the cybersecurity breach continue.
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AI Chatbots Promoting Cybercrime? ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI Are Happy to Write Phishing Emails
Concerns over AI safety persist as developers build ever-more capable models and tout red-teaming and internal safeguards. However, Gadgets 360 found that popular chatbots, ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI, do not fully follow those protections: when prompted, they produced phishing email content that could be misused for scams, underscoring gaps in pract...
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Who Is Attaullah Baig? The Ex-WhatsApp Security Boss Exposing Meta's Alarming Privacy Secrets
Indian-origin cybersecurity expert Attaullah Baig, former WhatsApp head of security, has sued Meta, alleging ignored security flaws and retaliation after he raised warnings about millions of users' data being at risk.
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Apple Introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement to Protect iPhone 17 Series from Sophisticated Malware Attacks
Apple introduced a new security feature alongside the iPhone 17 series launch, aimed at defending against advanced malware threats. Called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), the system uses a tagging method to verify memory access attempts. Apple noted that implementing MIE required major changes to memory allocation, the A19 chip, the operating s...
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Ex-WhatsApp Executive Sues Meta Over Alleged Security Failures
A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures.
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Android Security Alert: Billions of Devices at High Risk, Warns CERT-In; Android 15, 16 Affected
Earlier this week, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released an advisory warning of multiple security flaws impacting smartphones on recent Android versions. The agency noted that a significant number of these vulnerabilities have been assigned unique CVE identifiers and rated them as high severity, given their potential to ena...
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Google Debunks Gmail Security Warning Reports, Calls It Entirely False
Google has denied all claims of Gmail suffering a data breach or alerting 2.5 billion users about the same. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant published a blog post and highlighted that any information around this information is “entirely false.” The company also urged outlets to ensure that conversation in this space is accurate and...
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ChatGPT Provides Answers to Harmful Prompts When Tricked With Persuasion Tactics, Researchers Say
ChatGPT might be vulnerable to principles of persuasion, a group of researchers has claimed. During the experiment, the group used a range of prompts with different persuasion tactics such as flattery, peer pressure, and more, to GPT-4o mini, and found varying success rates. The experiment also highlights that breaking down the system hierarchy of ...
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WhatsApp Fixes Zero-Click Vulnerability that Affects iOS, macOS Versions of the App
WhatsApp has fixed a zero-click security vulnerability, which could have been used to carry out sophisticated attacks against targeted individuals, the company said. The flaw affected the Meta-owned messenger app’s iOS and macOS versions, and could “trigger processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target's device.”
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Google Data Breach Exposed 2.5 Billion Accounts: How to Secure Your Gmail Account
Google has reportedly alerted 2.5 billion Gmail account holders after a password hacker group was able to carry out a “successful intrusion.” As per the report, the incident occurred between August 8 and 18 in a widespread attack via compromised Open Authorisation (OAuth) tokens. Apart from targeting individual accounts, the threat actors have ...
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CloudSEK Research Reveals How AI Summarising Tools Can Be Tricked Using Prompt Injection-Based Attacks
CloudSEK, a cybersecurity firm, highlighted that artificial intelligence (AI) summarising tools can be tricked into carrying out commands of threat actors using benign CSS tricks. These tricks usually involve using hidden text in emails, messages, weblinks, and web pages. When a user asks an AI chatbot or an AI summarising tool to process the conte...
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Asia To Africa: Inside Putin's Plan To Export Russian Cyber Capabilities Worldwide
As the US and Europe tighten restrictions on Russian tech firms, Moscow is quietly extending its cyber influence across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, presenting its commercial cybersecurity capabilities as protection against Western interference
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India Tops Global Malware Attack Chart As AI Drives Ransomware Surge: Report
India has emerged as the most-targeted nation for malware attacks, topping global charts, with Artificial Intelligence fuelling a surge in ransomware, a new report by cybersecurity firm Acronis has said.
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Government Makes Cybersecurity Audits Mandatory for Crypto Exchanges Due to Rising Risks
India has made cybersecurity audits mandatory for cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and intermediaries following a surge in cyber heists. The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) has directed firms to hire CERT-In-approved auditors as part of compliance under the PMLA. Industry leaders welcomed the move as a step toward stronger safeguar...
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Did Jaguar Land Rover Lose 40,000 New Cars? Here's The Truth
A recent report suggested that JLR has lost track of 40,000 new cars while dealing with cybersecurity issues.
-
JLR Production Halt Extended Until September 24 Over Cybersecurity Breach
The Tata Group owned brand said that the global operations remain disrupted as investigations into the cybersecurity breach continue.
-
AI Chatbots Promoting Cybercrime? ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI Are Happy to Write Phishing Emails
Concerns over AI safety persist as developers build ever-more capable models and tout red-teaming and internal safeguards. However, Gadgets 360 found that popular chatbots, ChatGPT, Grok and Meta AI, do not fully follow those protections: when prompted, they produced phishing email content that could be misused for scams, underscoring gaps in pract...
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Who Is Attaullah Baig? The Ex-WhatsApp Security Boss Exposing Meta's Alarming Privacy Secrets
Indian-origin cybersecurity expert Attaullah Baig, former WhatsApp head of security, has sued Meta, alleging ignored security flaws and retaliation after he raised warnings about millions of users' data being at risk.
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Apple Introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement to Protect iPhone 17 Series from Sophisticated Malware Attacks
Apple introduced a new security feature alongside the iPhone 17 series launch, aimed at defending against advanced malware threats. Called Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), the system uses a tagging method to verify memory access attempts. Apple noted that implementing MIE required major changes to memory allocation, the A19 chip, the operating s...
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Ex-WhatsApp Executive Sues Meta Over Alleged Security Failures
A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures.
-
Android Security Alert: Billions of Devices at High Risk, Warns CERT-In; Android 15, 16 Affected
Earlier this week, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released an advisory warning of multiple security flaws impacting smartphones on recent Android versions. The agency noted that a significant number of these vulnerabilities have been assigned unique CVE identifiers and rated them as high severity, given their potential to ena...
-
Google Debunks Gmail Security Warning Reports, Calls It Entirely False
Google has denied all claims of Gmail suffering a data breach or alerting 2.5 billion users about the same. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant published a blog post and highlighted that any information around this information is “entirely false.” The company also urged outlets to ensure that conversation in this space is accurate and...
-
ChatGPT Provides Answers to Harmful Prompts When Tricked With Persuasion Tactics, Researchers Say
ChatGPT might be vulnerable to principles of persuasion, a group of researchers has claimed. During the experiment, the group used a range of prompts with different persuasion tactics such as flattery, peer pressure, and more, to GPT-4o mini, and found varying success rates. The experiment also highlights that breaking down the system hierarchy of ...
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WhatsApp Fixes Zero-Click Vulnerability that Affects iOS, macOS Versions of the App
WhatsApp has fixed a zero-click security vulnerability, which could have been used to carry out sophisticated attacks against targeted individuals, the company said. The flaw affected the Meta-owned messenger app’s iOS and macOS versions, and could “trigger processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target's device.”
-
Google Data Breach Exposed 2.5 Billion Accounts: How to Secure Your Gmail Account
Google has reportedly alerted 2.5 billion Gmail account holders after a password hacker group was able to carry out a “successful intrusion.” As per the report, the incident occurred between August 8 and 18 in a widespread attack via compromised Open Authorisation (OAuth) tokens. Apart from targeting individual accounts, the threat actors have ...
-
CloudSEK Research Reveals How AI Summarising Tools Can Be Tricked Using Prompt Injection-Based Attacks
CloudSEK, a cybersecurity firm, highlighted that artificial intelligence (AI) summarising tools can be tricked into carrying out commands of threat actors using benign CSS tricks. These tricks usually involve using hidden text in emails, messages, weblinks, and web pages. When a user asks an AI chatbot or an AI summarising tool to process the conte...
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Asia To Africa: Inside Putin's Plan To Export Russian Cyber Capabilities Worldwide
As the US and Europe tighten restrictions on Russian tech firms, Moscow is quietly extending its cyber influence across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, presenting its commercial cybersecurity capabilities as protection against Western interference
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India Tops Global Malware Attack Chart As AI Drives Ransomware Surge: Report
India has emerged as the most-targeted nation for malware attacks, topping global charts, with Artificial Intelligence fuelling a surge in ransomware, a new report by cybersecurity firm Acronis has said.
