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Boat suffers data breach: Personal data of 7.5 mn users leaked on dark web
The threat actor has put out around 2 Gigabytes of personally identifiable information (PII) of boAt users on dark web forums, claimed the reports
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Data of 7.5 mn boAt customers leaked on dark web: Forbes India report
The personal data of 7.5 million boAt customers is a being sold at just two euros on the dark web
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67% of consumers experienced subscription trap: LocalCircles survey
Over 1 in 2 consumers surveyed who bought something via app or software platforms said they experienced dark patterns like subscription trap, drip pricing and bait and switch, said the survey
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'Virtual currency, e-payments, dark web attracts terrorist organisations'
According to a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report, virtual currencies such as Bitcoin have increasingly been used in various illegal and criminal activities and terror financing
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Indian national pleads guilty in US to running dark web drug enterprise
Customers ordered controlled substances from Singh using the vendor sites and by paying with cryptocurrency
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Personal information of 750 mn Indians up for sale on dark web: CloudSEK
The dataset allegedly encompasses around 85 per cent of the Indian population, making it one of the largest breaches of its kind
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How well can govt's dark pattern rules curb customer manipulation online?
You looked for tickets on a travel website and it showed a particular price. But, within minutes, the price increased
Battling dark patterns
Ensuring consumer protection on the web will boost growth
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Develop digital forensic infrastructure to deal with Dark Web: NHRC chief
"We must invest and develop a broad-based digital forensic infrastructure to tackle the misuse of cyberspace and criminal commerce. At the same time we have to ensure the digital divide is not there"
Banks focusing on client acquisition, less on grievance redress: RBI's Rao
Deputy guv says efforts to provide timely solutions to grievances have not kept pace with technology
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Centre issues advisory for social media platforms regarding deepfakes
Deepfakes are videos creating delusion with the use of deep learning, AI, and photoshopping techniques to make images of fake events
Aadhaar data of 815 million on sale on the dark web, says report
The hacker was willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport dataset for 80,000 US dollars when contacted by Resecurity
Govt launches hackathon to tackle 'dark patterns' on some online platform
This is the third hackathon the consumer affairs department is organising after the successful hackathon on onion and tomato, he said
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WormGPT: A malicious cousin of ChatGPT with no ethical boundaries
A new AI tool has been developed called WormGPT, which aims to launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The WormGPT could be accessed only through the dark web
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Google to expand its Dark Web monitoring tool to all Gmail users in US
Google has announced that it will expand its Dark Web monitoring to all Gmail users in the US and later to international markets
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Data of 600,000 HDFC Bank customers' leaked on dark web, bank denies
After reports surfaced that personal information of nearly 6 lakh customers of HDFC Bank was allegedly leaked on the Dark Web, the bank said on Tuesday there has been no data leak of its customers
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Data of 30 mn railway users compromised, personal details on dark web
Breach not from IRCTC, says Railways; private partners on Centre's radar
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Hackers now selling 150k patients' data of TN hospital on Dark Web: Report
The cyber attack came on the heels of the massive AIIMS ransomware attack that has crippled nation's premier healthcare institution for days
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Hyderabad police arrests 2 after busting drug racket operating on dark web
The Hyderabad Narcotic Enforcement Wing (H-NEW) has busted a gang of drug traffickers operating through the dark web and apprehended two accused, who police described as dark web kingpins
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Twitter launches Dark Web Tor service amid Russian censorship
Blocked by the Russian government, Twitter has entered the Dark Web and people can now access the platform via a Tor Onion service to bypass the censorship.
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