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CyberDakait: Inside the Fake Card Protection Scam Draining Indian Bank Customers
Your new credit card arrives. Within 24 hours, your phone rings. A polite caller says he is from your bank. A "Credit Card Protection Plan" has been activated on your card, and you will be charged unless you cancel it today. He sends a link on WhatsApp so you can "deactivate" it. That one call is the front door of CyberDakait, an organised fraud operation that has compromised at least 17,960 Android phones in India and intercepted more than 7.6 million SMS messages, including
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Inside the Bank of Baroda Breach: What a Single Compromised Inbox Exposed
On July 24, 2026, a relatively obscure extortion group calling itself TripleX did something most ransomware crews don't bother with: they gave the data away for free. Roughly a terabyte of what the group claims is Bank of Baroda's customer and internal data appeared on a dark web forum, no payment wall, no negotiation thread. Three days later, the bank confirmed an incident — carefully, without confirming the scale. That gap between "1TB dumped publicly" and "an employee's em
Aug 3


Understanding AI-Driven SOC
Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are at the forefront of modern defense against the relentless onslaught of cyber threats. SOC analysts are constantly engaged in the challenging task of identifying, examining, and addressing potential breaches in an ever-changing threat landscape. The high volume of alerts and repetitive tasks can be extremely challenging for security teams, even for those with extensive experience. The rise of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and
Aug 19, 2024


Effective Strategies for Implementing API Security
An application programming interface (API) regulates the making and handling of requests, allowing software programs to communicate with one another. As cloud computing has grown in popularity and the trend toward microservices rather than monolithic systems has taken hold, they have assumed an increasingly central role in the modern digital landscape. Millions of developers and hundreds of thousands of organizations across the world use one of the more than 30,000 public API
Aug 17, 2024


Industrial firms experienced an increase in ransomware attacks during the second quarter of 2024.
According to Dragos, an industrial cybersecurity consultancy, the number of ransomware attacks on industrial enterprises increased significantly from the first to the second quarter of 2024. The number of ransomware groups targeting industrial enterprises increased from 22 in the first quarter to 29 in the second quarter, according to the company's Industrial Ransomware Analysis Report for Q2 2024. After law enforcement cracked down on big ransomware operations like BlackCat
Aug 15, 2024


Updated BackConnect Module in IcedID Malware Expands Threat
The BackConnect (BC) module, which is utilized for post-compromise behavior on compromised computers, has been updated by threat actors connected to the malware loader known as IcedID, according to recent research from Team Cymru. In 2017, IcedID, also known as BokBot, a malware strain resembling Emotet and QakBot, began as a banking trojan before transitioning to the function of an initial access facilitator for additional payloads. In order to prioritize ransomware transmis
Jul 28, 2023


New AI Tool Empowers Cybercriminals to Launch Complex Cyberattacks: WormGPT
Given how popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) is right now, it may not come as a surprise that the technology has been repurposed by bad actors for their own gain, opening up new opportunities for faster crimes. A new generative AI cybercrime tool dubbed WormGPT has been offered on darknet forums as a mechanism for adversaries to carry out complex phishing and corporate email compromise (BEC) assaults, according to SlashNext findings. Security researcher Daniel Ke
Jul 27, 2023


Building a Next-Generation Security Operations Center: A Guide for Everyone
Security Operations Center (SOC): what is it? The central place where a company's security staff regularly monitors and assesses its cybersecurity is known as a security operations center (SOC). The SOC's objective is to quickly recognize and address cyber threats and vulnerabilities in order to avoid security crises altogether. It's crucial to take into account not just your organization's existing security requirements but also upcoming trends and advancements in cybersecur
Jul 27, 2023


A beginner's guide to the world of digital forensics!!
What Is Digital Forensics? Digital forensics is the practice of identifying, acquiring, and analyzing electronic evidence. Today almost all criminal activity has a digital forensics element, and digital forensics experts provide critical assistance to police investigations. Digital forensic data is commonly used in court proceedings. An important part of digital forensics is the analysis of suspected cyberattacks, with the objective of identifying, mitigating, and eradicating
Jul 27, 2023


Threat from cyberattacks using infected USB drives has tripled in 2023
In the first half of 2023, the number of cyberattacks using infected USB infection drives as an initial access vector increased by threefold. New research from Mandiant reveals two such campaigns, SOGU and SNOWYDRIVE, which target both public and private sector organizations globally. According to the Google-owned threat intelligence company, SOGU is the "most common USB-based cyber espionage attack using USB flash drives and one of the most aggressive cyber espionage campaig
Jul 27, 2023


In Outlook desktop and web app , "display name" of email's "From" header can be manipulated
https://gitlab.com/email_bug/outlook_email_auth_bypass Outlook Desktop Description Two bugs in outlook makes it possible for the attacker to make the email to appear to be coming from an arbitrary email address or even no email (which in outlook signifies that it is from the same organization): display name and from email are in same visual element , there is no isolation between them, thus an authenticated piece of information(from email) can be manipulated by an arbitrary
Jul 25, 2023


Tampa General Hospital half thwarts ransomware attack, but still loses patient data
The Tampa General Hospital (TGH) has promised to reach out to individuals whose information has been stolen by a ransomware group. In a cybersecurity notice, TGH said it noticed unusual activity on its computer systems on May 31, 2023. “Fortunately, TGH’s monitoring systems and experienced technology professionals effectively prevented encryption, which would have significantly interrupted the hospital’s ability to provide care for patients.” While that is good news from a he
Jul 25, 2023
Norwegian government IT systems hacked using zero-day flaw
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority has also been notified about the cyberattack, indicating that the hackers might have accessed and/or exfiltrated sensitive data from the ICT system, leading to a data breach. Despite the compromised platform's critical role in the government's daily operations, the recent cyberattack will not necessitate a halt in work activities. "DSS has initiated a number of security measures to protect the information on the affected ICT platform."
Jul 25, 2023


Over 20,000 Citrix Appliances Vulnerable to New Exploit
Tracked as CVE-2023-3519 and patched last week, the critical-severity bug can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely, without authentication, on vulnerable appliances that are configured as a gateway or AAA virtual server. Last week, CISA warned that attacks exploiting the flaw have been seen since June 2023, in at least one case targeting a critical infrastructure organization. On Friday, Bishop Fox warned of a new way to exploit the vulnerability, one that can be u
Jul 25, 2023
MOVEit Hack Could Earn Cybercriminals $100M as Number of Confirmed Victims Grows
Ransomware recovery company Coveware believes the Cl0p ransomware gang could earn as much as $100 million from the MOVEit hack, which has impacted hundreds of organizations. In a ransomware monetization report published on Friday, Coveware said the percentage of victims that paid a ransom in the second quarter of 2023 fell to a record low of 34%. The company noted that the chances of cybercriminals getting paid in the case of attacks that only involve data theft without the
Jul 25, 2023


MOVEit vulnerability and data extortion incident
A timeline of the #MOVEit #cyberattack June 1: MOVEit’s vulnerability is flagged by cyber security researchers and the US government....
Jul 24, 2023
Practical Cyber Security Analysis from India
FutureSafeGuard is an independent cyber security blog written by a practitioner, for practitioners. Every post looks at what actually happens in Indian enterprises: why breaches happen, what the regulators expect, and which security technologies work in real deployments. Whether you lead a security team, run IT for a bank or PSU, or are starting your career in cyber security, you will find practical analysis here, not just headlines. Stay informed, stay secure
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