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VPNs have proven to be an invaluable tool for accessing blocked content globally, but the authorities in India consider it a tool that offers more significant benefits to cybercriminals. Since Cybercriminals can use VPNs to hide their identities online, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has urged the government to ban VPN services throughout the country. The Parliamentary Standing Committee has proposed identifying and blocking VPN services in the country. The committee stated that VPNs pose a significant threat in terms of security challenges when combating cybercriminals. The report titled “Action Taken by Government on Recommendations/Observations Contained in the 233rd

Recently, security researchers discovered software installed on the devices of businesspeople, journalists, and activists. This software, referred to as Pegasus, was made by an Israeli cybersecurity company intended to pursue terrorists and criminals. According to the revelation, 50,000 phone numbers of highly influential individuals like lawyers, judges, and politicians were compromised. This list of compromised individuals also included a king, three presidents, and ten prime ministers, as reported by the Washington Post. Pegasus is a recent example of how people will need to take digital prying seriously. Since the most personal information is present on phones, Spyware makes it easier

The world has been caught in a spin by one of history’s most well-thought-out, well-planned, and sophisticated security breaches that happened in mid-2020. The SolarWinds hack-what all happened To recap, this was a ‘supply chain attack’ made on a network management tool called Orion, created by an IT management and remote monitoring software company, SolarWinds. To shed light on supply chain attacks, they are a type of cyber-attack that seeks to infiltrate a weaker element of a supply chain in order to gain access to the real targets. In this case, the attack on the Orion server would in turn

The databases of three android VPN services have been hacked and put up for sale on a hacker forum online. The databases contain sensitive information of around 21 million people, including their authentication credentials and device data. The VPN services that this information has purportedly been stolen from are SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN. If the information that has been leaked is in fact, genuine, what’s even more troubling than the fact that it has been put up for sale is the amount of information this application can collect from your device—even after claiming that they won’t in their respective privacy

A Chinese group of hackers, popular as “The Shadow Brokers” first became public back in 2016 when they admitted to having stolen sensitive tools from the National Security Agency or the NSA. However, as Check Point, an American-Israeli security agency recently revealed, there is evidence that there may have been a lot more to the picture. According to Check Point, there is a high chance that there were other threat actors who had access to some of the tools and exploits before they were officially released. Sources state that this undocumented incident of cyber-theft took place around 2014—two years before