A new poll conducted by global research company Ipsos finds that more than three out of ten parents (32%) in India say their children have been victim of cyberbullying. The findings also disclosed that 45 percent of Indian parents believed a child in their community was being cyberbullied, while a majority (53%) of parents online [...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
Malware infection rate in India much higher than initially suspected
Posted: 6th January 2012 by infosecindia in Malware, NewsTags: botnet, CERT-In, India, malware, Mariposa botnet, microsoft, MSRT, spambot, Trojans, Windows XP, Worms
The threat landscape in India has turned out to be more active than initially suspected. India has had a relatively low malware infection rate for some time, which seemed subdued for a region that has such a large high tech industry. But with the new data recently released by Microsoft, in the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence [...]
Indian hackers expose source code of Symantec products
Posted: 6th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: CBI, Google, hacker, India, Lords of Dharmaraja, Norton, Pasteb, Symantec, Yama Tough
India based hacker group that goes by the name ‘Lords of Dharmaraja’ has posted the source code of two of Symantec products on Pastebin. The document has already been taken down from the site. A hacker called “Yama Tough” (@YamaTough), who appears to be acting as a spokesperson for the gang, posted the content to [...]
Scammers exploit death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il
Posted: 5th January 2012 by infosecindia in Malware, Scam, SpamTags: BHSEO, brief_introduction_of_kim_jong_Ill_pdf.pdf, CERT-In, India, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, Spam
As expected, malware developers and scam artists have greeted the death of North Korea’s dictatorial leader, Kim Jong-il, with Black Hat SEO and Social Engineering attacks. The Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea suffered a heart attack on a train journey last month and a steady stream of schemes to exploit the news has [...]
Indian researchers identify XSS vulnerability in WordPress 3.3, patch issued
Posted: 4th January 2012 by infosecindia in NewsTags: India, vulnerability, WordPress, XSS
Two Indian security researchers, Aditya Modha & Samir Shah, Monday released an advisory outlining a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the latest version (at the time of writing) of WordPress 3.3. It however, later turned out that the vulnerability was related to whether a WordPress instance was installed from an IP address (http://127.0.0.1/wp-admin) or using a domain [...]
Indian police arrests 6 Nigerian spammers
Posted: 4th January 2012 by infosecindia in Law & Order, News, Scam, SpamTags: cybercrime, India, mobile, Phishing, Spam
Soon after the report from Kaspersky Labs claiming India to be at the top in Spam sending nations, local police in India say they have arrested six foreign nationals suspected of defrauding hundreds of people using text message and email scams. According to BBC, scam victims were duped after being told they had won a [...]
Anonymous defaces NIC India website to support fight against corruption in India
Posted: 6th June 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: Anonymous, defacement, India, National Informatics Centre, NIC, website
As protests against corruption fuel in India with leaders of the opposition staging nationwide protests, a group of hackers, who claim to be an offshoot of the Anonymous group and call themselves Anonymous India, have defaced the country’s National Informatics Center’s website. However, at the time of writing this post, the defaced page has been [...]
India Home for Phishing Emails: X-Force 2010 report
Posted: 25th May 2011 by infosecindia in News, SpamTags: Brazil, IBM, India, Phishing, Russia, Spam, spear phishing, U.S., Vietnam, vulnerabilities, X-Force 2010 report
IBM has released results from its annual X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report, highlighting that public and private organizations around the world faced increasingly sophisticated, customized IT security threats in 2010. According to the report India was the top country for phishing email origination in 2010 at 15.5 percent, followed by Russia at 10.4 percent. [...]