April, 2023

• 17 April

  Akamai to open two new DDoS scrubbing centers in India

  

  Cloud cybersecurity company Akamai has announced two new India-based scrubbing centers, as part of its global infrastructure investment strategy. With plans to deploy the scrubbing centers in Chennai and Mumbai, Akamai aims to provide protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to local and global businesses in India. A …

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• 17 April

  Data Protection Act will be a regulatory tool like DSA: TIB

  

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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• 16 April

  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 …

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