Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) believes that the draft Data Protection Act, designed to protect information, will be as arbitrary as the Digital Security Act (DSA) if it is finally passed into law. The TIB released its observations on the draft Data Protection Act, 2023 at a press conference in the …
Read More »Latest Cybersecurity Alert- 15 April, 2023
Latest Cybersecurity Alert- 15 April, 2023 RTM Locker Enforces Strict Rules on Affiliates to Avoid Public Attention: Trellix detected a new private RaaS group, named Read The Manual (RTM) Locker, that has been leveraging affiliates for ransom. Also, it flies under the radar by avoiding high-profile targets. Moreover, the self-destructive nature …
Read More »Conference Black Hat Asia, May 09, 2023
he Black Hat Trainings offer attendees individual technical courses on topics ranging from the latest in penetration testing to exploiting web applications and even defending and building SCADA systems. Often designed exclusively for Black Hat, these hands-on attack and defense courses are taught by industry and subject matter experts from …
Read More »Daily Cybersecurity Update, April 14, 2023
Another crypto exchange hack comes right at the heels of the GDAC hack. This time, it is Bitrue that suffered a loss of $23 million in crypto assets. Nobelium is back on the threat landscape targeting NATO and EU nations. Talking about reemergence, Transparent Tribe has popped up with a …
Read More »Russian hacktivist group targets India’s health ministry
A Russian hacktivist group has claimed to have breached the health management information system of India, which could contain the health data of millions of Indian citizens. “On 15 March 2023, CloudSek’s contextual AI digital risk platform XVigil discovered a threat actor group claiming to have targeted an Indian government website,” cybersecurity …
Read More »China draft law to require ‘security assessment’ for new AI products
All new artificial intelligence (AI) products developed in China will be required to undergo a “security assessment” before being released to the public, a sweeping new draft law by the country’s internet regulator showed on Tuesday. “Before providing services to the public that use generative AI products, a security assessment …
Read More »Google New Initiative to Reduce the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Charley Snyder, the Head of Security Policy at Google, has posted a new initiative that will eliminate the risk of vulnerabilities and protect security researchers. In his post, he mentioned, “The security industry has improved in many ways, both in technological advances and collaboration, but many challenges remain, especially within …
Read More »Hacker group brings down Israeli postal, banking and telecoms websites
A hacker group attacked the websites of Israel’s national mail service and major banks Friday, briefly bringing them down in an assault seemingly timed to coincide with a day of Iranian-promoted anti-Israel events. The attack was quickly squelched, authorities said, with apparently no significant harm or data leaks, though the …
Read More »Google Warns of New Chrome Zero-Day Attack
Google on Friday joined the list of vendors dealing with zero-day attacks, rolling out a major Chrome Desktop update to fix a security defect that’s already been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, is described as a type confusion in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. “Google is …
Read More »Critical Vulnerability in Hikvision Storage Solutions Exposes Video Security DataCritical Vulnerability in Hikvision Storage Solutions Exposes Video Security Dataz
Video surveillance giant Hikvision this week informed customers that it has patched a critical vulnerability affecting its Hybrid SAN and cluster storage products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28808, has been described by the vendor as an access control issue that can be exploited to obtain administrator permissions by sending specially crafted messages …
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