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This is a company from UK that employs hackers, who are generally in their teenage,  who are capable of reform. This company gives them a second chance to use their skills to prevent hacking and for enhancing cyber security. This company consists mostly of kids who were caught hacking and stealing personal information, but did not have any personal gain or malicious intent. This company is about giving second chances to such kids.These hackers are involved in Grey hat as well as white ha...

A Romanian was arrested in south Delhi for stealing money from ATMs in South Delhi through a card skimming device. Lupoi Emil confessed that he flew from Romania to steal money to support his family’s luxurious lifestyle. He was caught by the police when he was trying to put a card-skimming device to Yes Bank ATM. This was found by a cyber team of the police when they received several complaints regarding illegal withdrawals from the ATM.   ...

A website of a power distribution company was hacked, using a ransomware which demanded six Bitcoins (Rs.20 lakhs).The website was however brought to normalcy and there was no breach of data.   This incident occurred when an employee from the company opened an email, due to which the ransomware swept into the servers and the website was hacked. Since the network of computers also included the computers from Andhra pradesh , this ransomware appeared over there also. ...

In the instant case the winner of a T.V show The Voice Kids Russia,had won the show which chose the winners the through votes , from mobile phones. While the other contestants won only 3000 votes, Mikella Abernova won 30000 votes. It was later discovered that the contestant had won the show by using automated bots by sending over 8000 messages from 300 phones. The fact that bots was used to cast the votes were found out because the phone numbers had a sequence. The winner was the daughter of ...

GozNym was the name of group of people that were responsible for a banking malware which consisted of two kinds of trojans one is a banking trojan and the other was a ransomware. This group were held responsible for laundering money worth 100 million dollars from people across America and Europe. The group consisted of 10 cybercriminals. This group was arrested by the joint efforts of some European countries and the U.S.A. 5 of the 10 members were arrested on May 16th and the other 5 are on t...

A Kannada movie called Krishnatulasi was released online in YouTube before its official release date. Surprisingly the video obtained ten lakh views in 2 days before it was taken down by YouTube. Due to this the theatre owners refused to screen the movie.  The producer of the movie had spent nearly Rs.50 lakhs to distribute the movie in theatres. Annoyed by its refusal to release by the theatre owners, the producer filed a complaint to the Cyber Crime police department.   ...