Data Privacy

"Our engine detected two spyware hiding on the Google Play Store and affecting up to 1.5 million users. Both applications are from the same developer, pose as file management applications and feature similar malicious behaviours," said cyber security company Pradeo.

A data broker is a business that aggregates information from a variety of sources, processes it to enrich, cleanse or analyse it and licenses it to other organisations. According to Incogni, a leading data removal service by VPN service provider Surfshark, India is among the top five countries most affected by the most significant data broker breaches, led by the US.

A cyber-threat watcher FalconFeedsio posted on Twitter the claims by an unspecified hacker that they breached Acronis and stole data. "A user in the hacker's forum claims to have leaked data from a Switzerland cybersecurity company," posted FalconFeedsio. The leaked data includes various certificate files, command logs, system configurations, system information logs.

It's the second time the company was hacked in the past nine months."Based on our investigation to date, this targeted incident has been limited to 133 Mailchimp accounts. There is no evidence that this compromise affected Intuit systems or customer data beyond these Mailchimp accounts," the company said in a statement.

Among the software products being impersonated include Grammarly, Slack, Dashlane, Audacity, ITorrent, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and more, reports Bleeping Computer.

According to Israeli cyber intelligence firm, Hudson Rock, the database contains devastating amounts of information, including e-mails and phone numbers of high-profile users.

As the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 73 per cent of Indians don't want non-personal data to come under the purview of the new bill, a new report showed on Monday. While 45 per cent of Indians think that data localisation should be flexible, 55 per cent say that data transfer regulations should be flexible, according to the report by data privacy and cybersecurity services provider Tsaaro.

The ACLU published thousands of pages of previously unreleased records about how Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security are "sidestepping our Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable government searches and seizures".

According to Motherboard, the hacker said they reached out to Verizon and shared the email that he sent to the company. "Please feel free to respond with an offer not to leak you're (sic) entire employee database," the hacker wrote in the email. A Verizon spokesperson reportedly confirmed to the website that the hacker has been in contact with the company.

The sites include The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared too and even the homepage of the open-source software youtube-mp3 is unavailable, reports TorrentFreak.