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,...

First Space #cybercrime of #identitytheft in ISS  Nasa is investigating a claim that an astronaut Ms. Anne McClain the first Lady astronaut has allegedly accessed the bank account of her estranged husband from the International Space Station. Accused has acknowledged the crime but denied any wrongdoing When her husband Mr  Summer Worden, had filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission FTC. Lady astronaut  has since returned to Earth. The astronaut claims, she was merely making sure that the family's finances were in order and there was enough money to pay bills and care for Ms Worden's son - who they had been raising together prior to the divorce in 2018 How does the law work in space? There are five national or international space agencies involved in the ISS - from the US, Canada, Japan, Russia and several European countries - and a legal framework sets out that national law applies to any people and possessions in space. So if a Canadian national were to commit...

One Vikas Kumar from Patna was Convicted in #cybercrime for 2 years with Rs. 5,000/- fine for operating fake #Patanjali Website & promising distributorship in lieu of ₹3 Lacks by Ahmednagar Court in Maharashtra. FIR was Registered under S66D of the IT Act,2000 & S420 of IPC 1. District - Ahmednagar 2. Police Station - Cyber Police Station 3. C.R.No. 02/2017, IPC Sections 419, 420,467, 468 IT Act Section 66C 4. Name of Accused - Vikas Kumar, r/o Nalanda, Bihar. 5. Facts of the case - Accused in the said case had allegedly offered Distributorship through a fake website of Patanjali and thereby duped the Complainant to the tune of Rs. 3 Lacs. Technical Investigation of the said crime was undertaken by PI Pawar and the Accused was arrested from Patna, Bihar. Proceedings of the said case were conducted before the Court of Chief Magistrate, Ahmednagar . Almost everyone knows someone has been a Victim. But, there's still an attitude that somehow it always happens to the other guy....

What does Google know about YOU? Did you know that unlike searching , when you search on Google, they ? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow end of the  that they try to collect on people. What most people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use any Google products directly, they’re still trying to track as much as they can about you. Google trackers have been found on . This means they're also trying to track most everywhere you go on the internet, trying to slurp up your browsing history! Most people also don’t know that Google runs most of the ads you see across the internet and in apps – you know those ones that follow you around everywhere? Yup, that’s Google, too. They aren’t really a search company anymore – they’re a tracking company. They are tracking as much as they can for these annoying and intrusive ads, including recording every time you see them, where you saw them, if you clicked...

WhatsAPP Video Call Divorce A Nagpur family court has granted divorce & Rs. 10 Lakhs settlement for the wife in the US and husband in India, after recording the wife’s consent via a WhatsApp video call. The husband, 37, a resident of Khamla in Nagpur, works in Michigan, but was in his home town when the divorce was officially granted by mutual consent. The wife, 35, is studying in Michigan, US, on a student visa. Expressing her inability to attend the hearing as she was not permitted to seek long leave from her educational institution, the woman had requested that the hearing be conducted via a WhatsApp video call. After seeking consent from both sides, Nagpur Family Court Judge Swati Chauhan allowed their separation on the condition that the husband would pay the woman a lump-sum one-time alimony of Rs 10 lakh. The divorce was finalised on January 14, 2019 .The family court had obtained th...