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DPDP16 Oct 2026

What NITI Aayog wants MeitY to do under its new data centre evaluation framework

NITI Aayog has asked the Centre to establish "a centralised audit mechanism with MeitY" to inspect claims of data centres, while each state will publish a "state-wise centre approval matrix" under its data centre evaluation framework. The post What NITI Aayog wants MeitY to do under its new data centre evaluation fram

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Privacy16 Oct 2026

Survey finds SIM binding may disrupt business, but will it stop fraud?

While the survey on SIM binding underlined how firms expect forced logouts to disrupt business, it advises "a risk-based approach that focuses on identity-linked controls on fraud pathways". The post Survey finds SIM binding may disrupt business, but will it stop fraud? appeared first on MEDIANAMA.

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Cyber16 Oct 2026

Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, publis

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Breach16 Oct 2026

Russian man linked to deadly NHS contractor hack arrested

Joe Tidy reports: German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted pathology services across several London hospitals and was the first cy

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Breach16 Oct 2026

Moscow police detain suspected DataSuckers hackers linked to breaches in Ukraine and Russia

Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russian authorities have reportedly detained three suspected members of the DataSuckers hacking group following a cyberattack on a popular restaurant chain that exposed vast amounts of customer information. A Moscow court on Wednesday placed 19-year-old Denis Fridman under house arrest until De

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Cyber16 Oct 2026

Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks

Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. [...]

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Cyber16 Oct 2026

Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor

Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Googl

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Cyber16 Oct 2026

UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and m

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Privacy, cyber & DPDP news

What NITI Aayog wants MeitY to do under its new data centre evaluation framework

Survey finds SIM binding may disrupt business, but will it stop fraud?

Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

Russian man linked to deadly NHS contractor hack arrested

Moscow police detain suspected DataSuckers hackers linked to breaches in Ukraine and Russia

Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks

Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor

UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing