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January 8, 2025

Dhaka Police arrests Turkish ATM hacker six months after escaping from Agartala

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit apprehended Turkish national Hakan Zanburkan in Bangladesh on Tuesday. Agartala’s Govind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital and Agartala Government Medical College (AGMC) were able to eject Hakan’s captive with the aid of the local folks from Tripura. Several other members of an international ATM card cloning syndicate…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#atm, #cyber-awareness, #cyber-crime, #cyber-crime-news, #cyber-forensic, #cyber-forensic-expert, #cyber-security, #hacker, #investigation, #turkish-hacker
January 8, 2025

Zloader Banking a new Malware attack can be bypass Microsoft Signature Verification.

A ZLoader malware campaign is exploiting a nine-year-old flaw in Microsoft’s digital signature verification to steal credentials and sensitive information using remote monitoring tools. According to Check Point Research, which has been tracking the sophisticated infection chain since November 2021, it has been attributed to a cybercriminal group dubbed MalSmoke, citing similarities with previous attacks.…

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#attack, #bypass, #cyber-crime, #cyber-crime-news, #malware, #microsoft
January 8, 2025

Code Signing Certificates are being used by new BLISTER malware to avoid detection.

According to researchers, evasive malware exploits valid code-signing certificates to evade security measures and deploy Cobalt Strike and BitRAT payloads through compromised systems. Elastic Security experts have dubbed the binary “Blister,” with malware samples that have zero to negligible detections on VirusTotal. At the time of writing, the infection vector, as well as the ultimate…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#blister, #ccas, #cyber-crime, #cyber-crime-news, #malware, #payloads, #vulnerability
January 8, 2025

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Week II of the Fifth Substantive Session

Sukanya Thapliyal In Part I of the two-part blog series, we briefed our readers on the developments that took place in the first week of the Fifth Session of the Ad-Hoc Committee. In Part II of the series, we aim to capture the key discussion on provisions on (i) technical assistance, (ii) preventative measures, (iii)…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#cyber-crime, #international-law, #multistakeholderism, #online-safety, #tech, #un-ad-hoc-committee, #united-nations
January 8, 2025

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Week I of the Fifth Substantive Session.

By Sukanya Thapliyal Introduction Last month from April 11-21, 2023, the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Criminal Purpose held its Fifth Session in Vienna. As we reported earlier, the negotiating process has reached a pivotal stage, wherein the Member Countries…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#cyber-crime, #cyber-norms, #international-law, #internet-governance, #multistakeholderism, #tech, #un-ad-hoc-committee, #united-nations
January 8, 2025

CCG-NLUD’s Statement on International Cooperation to the Fifth Session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes

Sukanya Thapliyal As an accredited stakeholder to the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes (“the Ad Hoc Committee”), CCG-NLUD recently participated in the Fifth Session of this key process setting the stage for first universal and legally…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#cyber-crime, #cyber-norms, #international-law, #internet-governance, #multistakeholderism, #tech, #un-ad-hoc-committee, #uncategorized, #united-nations
January 8, 2025

Understanding the Anatomy of Cyber Enabled Crimes and their Governance

Sukanya Thapliyal Digital systems and Information Communication Technology (ICT) play an increasingly central role in our lives. Technological advancement has created new opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in digital systems and networks. The resulting cybercrimes can affect everyone, from government and multinational corporations to individuals. As technology continues to make deeper inroads into our lives,…

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#ad-hoc-commitee, #cyber-crime, #cyber-diplomacy, #cyber-security, #international-law, #international-negotiation, #multistakeholderism, #tech, #un, #un-ad-hoc-committee
January 8, 2025

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Fourth Substantive Session (Part II)

Sukanya Thapliyal Introduction In Part I of this two-part blog series, we provided our readers a brief overview and observations from the discussions pertaining to the second reading of the provisions on criminalisation of offences under the proposed convention during the Fourth Session of the Ad-hoc Committee. In Part II of the series, we will…

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#ad-hoc-commitee, #cyber-crime, #cyber-diplomacy, #cyber-norms, #international-law, #multistakeholderism, #online-extremism
January 8, 2025

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Fourth Substantive Session

Sukanya Thapliyal Last month, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi had the opportunity to participate as a stakeholder in the Fourth Session of the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes (“the Ad Hoc…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#ad-hoc-commitee, #cyber-crime, #cyber-norms, #international-law, #international-negotiation, #tech
January 8, 2025

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from First Substantive Session

Sukanya Thapliyal Earlier this month, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi had the opportunity to participate as a stakeholder in the proceedings of the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, which has been tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes…

CyberCrime, CyberManiac, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity awareness, Security Awareness, Threat Intelligence

#ad-hoc-commitee, #cyber-crime, #cyber-diplomacy, #tech, #un, #un-ad-hoc-committee, #united-nations

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