Pradipta Mitra
When your TikTok video or TikTok song gets thousands of likes & tiktok followers within few hours, it naturally feels great to become the popular guy, isn’t it? During the pandemic, tiktok download crossed 2 billion mark worldwide while India (611 million), China (197 million) & USA (166 million) are the top three countries in the list according to the Sensor Tower report. It’s clear that with the popularity & simplicity of...
Pradipta Mitra
Last two decades national cross-border hacking is on the rise. There’re proofs that many Govt agencies hire a bunch of hackers to perpetrate other country’s military facilities, embassies, defense ministry, and many other sensitive departments. Recently we see while Chinese and Indian troops engaged in cross border face-offs, China is also orchestrating cyber-attack on every sector & digital platforms of India. This is a classic example of Patriot hacking like cyber...
Pradipta Mitra
For last few days perhaps millions of banks account holders in India had received emails from”ncov2019@gov.in“ or with the subject lines ‘COVID-19 Testing’, ‘COVID-19 support’. As per warning from major PSU Banks they’re all phishing attacks, tries to steal customer’s sensitive login information. To warn its customers SBI tweeted: What is Phishing? It uses fake login pages, fake subject lines, sometimes fake job offers/ password expiry emails to defraud people. When you click on them...
Pradipta Mitra
Phishing, Pharming are very common types of fraud to deceive people on the internet using malicious URLs, links. In the current Covid-19 perspective, IT organizations are also struggling to secure the corporate network from all sorts of malware viz. Ransomware, Virus, Worm, etc. Correspondingly enterprises see AI/ML-based solutions has the potential to address phishing related threats in much more efficient ways. Machine Learning, Deep Learning based solutions expect labeled datasets,...
Pradipta Mitra
Globally all the business sectors are still struggling to get through the Covid-19 impact, but it’s business as usual for the cybercrooks, who likes more online traffic. Corporate security teams need to be ready with their security infrastructure against a series of cyberattacks during the Covid-19 pandemic when new technologies are adopted for remote collaboration and communication. A recent checkpoint published report shows, during pandemic lockdown how the malware attacks had...
Pradipta Mitra
Covid-19 has changed our daily lifestyle, people are working from home and spending more time on the internet than ever before; needless to mention every one of us is anxious and scared about the situation, frequently checking various Covid-19 online links to get updates. Well, this brings a golden opportunity for hackers to target individuals & companies and make money. Some recently published reports show since Feb’2020 thousands of new...
