Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

A banking malware named  ATMDTrack   has been active in India since late last summer,  in a  kaspersky report . Allegedly State sponsored Hackers from North Korean government have developed a new strain of malware that has been used to record and steal data from cards inserted into ATM machines in India. Further analysis of the malware by the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm found the samples to be part of a bigger remote access trojan (RAT) called DTrack. Calling it a spy tool to attack financial institutions and research centers in India, the experts said the malware strains shared “similarities with the DarkSeoul campaign, dating back to 2013 and attributed to the Lazarus group.” The DTrack RAT was detected as recently as this month, the researchers noted. Collecting key logs and browser histories The threat actors behind DTrack obfuscated their malicious code in an innocuous executable file that was protected behind encryption barriers in a dro...

Internet Access is a fundamental Right held by  Kerala High Court. i.e. that the right to have access to the #Internet is part of the right to education as well as the right to privacy under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution . The verdict came on a petition filed by a Kozhikode college student challenging her expulsion for not adhering to restrictions on the use of mobile phone Justice P.V. Asha made the observation while ordering the Principal of Sree Narayanaguru College, Kozhikode, to re-admit a student who had been expelled from the college hostel for using her mobile phone beyond the restricted hours. The court observed, “When the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has found that the right of access to Internet is a fundamental freedom and a tool to ensure right to education, a rule or instruction which impairs the said right of the students cannot be permitted to stand in the eye of law.” The verdict came on a petition filed by Faheema Shirin, a third-semes...

Two Tales of Using Kinetic Force in Response to  Cyberattack  May 2019, the  Israel Defense Forces (IDF)  launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged  cyber-assault . The IDF hit a building in the Gaza Strip with an airstrike after claiming the site had been used by  Hamas cyber operatives  to attack Israel’s cyber space. It came  amid days of intense fighting  between the IDF and terror groups in the Gaza Strip. The IDF claimed it stopped the attack online before launching its airstrike on Hamas. It claims it has now wiped out Hamas’ cyber operational capabilities.  Israel Defense Forces said  via Twitter : “We thwarted an attempted Hamas cyber offensive against Israeli targets. Following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where the Hamas cyber operatives work. HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed.”  It could mark a change in  modern cyber warfare  tactics,...