International

Facebook, Instagram and threads are experiencing technical issues, causing temporary disruptions worldwide. Many users are having trouble messaging, and Meta has not yet commented on the cause of the outage. Around 11:30 pm on Wednesday, many users experienced login issues with the web version of WhatsApp, receiving a ‘service not …

A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, has unsealed an indictment against Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese citizen, for allegedly hacking firewall devices globally in 2020. Guan and his co-conspirators, employed by Sichuan Silence Information Technology Co. Ltd., targeted a previously unknown vulnerability (an “0-day” vulnerability) in firewalls produced by U.K.-based Sophos …

Thousands of AWS customers had terabytes of sensitive data, including personal details, AWS credentials, and proprietary code, compromised in a cyber attack linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group. They gained access to sensitive information through poorly set up systems, resulting in over 2 TB of compromised data. Cybersecurity researchers Noam …

CISA has released a bulletin that lists over 270 Critical vulnerabilities discovered in various software and hardware in the past week. These vulnerabilities impact popular apps, operating systems, IoT devices, and development frameworks, creating significant risks if not fixed. Vulnerabilities have been categorized using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). …

India has experienced a 138% rise in cyberattacks on government bodies from 2019 to 2023. This increase has prompted a response from the government, detailed in a recent report to the Rajya Sabha. From 2019 to 2023, cyberattacks on Indian government entities surged from 85,797 to 204,844, indicating a significant …

Google has made a quantum computing chip that can finish tasks in five minutes, which would take conventional computers 10 undecillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years) to complete. That’s 10 septillion years, a number much larger than the age of our universe, leading scientists behind a recent quantum computing breakthrough to describe it …

DroidBot is a sophisticated Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that merges traditional hidden VNC and overlay functions with spyware-like features. It includes a keylogger and monitoring tools for intercepting user actions, making it effective for surveillance and stealing credentials. A key feature of DroidBot is its dual-channel communication: it uses …

Brain Cipher, a ransomware group that emerged in June 2024, claims to have stolen 1TB of data from Deloitte UK, but this has not been verified. Deloitte, a top professional services firm, is the newest victim listed on Brain Cipher’s dark web site. Hackers claim to have stolen over 1TB …