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Thieves Steal Iron Road Dividers, Residents Call For Increased Night Patrols

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SRINAGAR: In a strange act, miscreants in Sopore town of northern Baramulla district have stolen the iron-fitted road divider reflectors, installed a month ago across the town.
Locals said that, the road divider reflectors which were installed a month ago across Sopore town were stolen by the miscreants.
“At multiple locations including degree college crossing, Shah Dargah etc, the iron-fitted reflectors have been stolen”, they said.
A local resident said: “Theft incidents across the town is a great concern, there must be a thorough investigation. Police must intensify night patrolling, as miscreants are taking advantage of darkness.”
Confirming the incident, an official from the executing agency – Roads and Buildings Department, Sopore said that miscreants have stolen the reflectors, however, the same will be replaced so that people in particular drivers won’t face any inconvenience.
“There are few spots which need installation of reflectors, soon they too will be covered”, officials added.
Pertinent to mention here that, the reflectors were installed a month ago after many requests from the general public as the roads across the town were turning out to be the reason for accidents during evening hours. (KNO)

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

May 8, 2023
Hyderabad: Burglars break into house at Mailardevpally, steal cash, gold

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Hyderabad: Burglars took away cash and gold after breaking into a house at Mailardevpally on Monday night.
The owner Mazheruddin, was asleep when some unknown person came into the house located at Guntalbaba Dargah and opened the cupboard. He took away gold ornaments weighing three tolas and cash of about Rs 50,000 and escaped.
The police reached the spot after a complaint on Dial 100. The clues team came and gathered scientific evidence. The police are verifying the footage of closed-circuit cameras.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 18, 2023
Cybercriminals steal about $400k in cryptocurrencies via fake Tor Browser

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New Delhi: Cybercriminals have stolen about $4,00,000 using Tor Browser malware, affecting more than 15,000 users across 52 countries in 2023, a new report showed on Monday.
According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, the Tor Browser malware operates by replacing a portion of the entered clipboard contents with the cybercriminal’s own wallet address once it detects a wallet address in the clipboard.
“Despite the fake Tor Browser attack’s fundamental simplicity, it poses a greater danger than it seems. Not only does it create irreversible money transfers, but it is also passive and hard to detect for a regular user. Most malware requires a communication channel between the malware operator and the victim’s system,” said Vitaly Kamluk, Head of APAC Unit, Global Research & Analysis Team.

Cryptocurrency owners and traders are now actively being targeted by this new type of malware, which has been around for more than a decade and originally used by banking trojans for replacing bank account numbers, the report said.
The target user downloads a trojanized version of Tor Browser from a third-party resource containing a password protected RAR archive.
The purpose of the password is to prevent detection by security solutions. Once the file is dropped inside the user’s system, it registers itself in the system’s auto-start and is masqueraded with an icon of a popular application, such as uTorrent, according to the report.
Furthermore, the report mentioned that the malware targeted cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Monero.
These attacks have spread to at least 52 countries worldwide, with the majority of detections in Russia due to users downloading the infected Tor Browser.

The top 10 affected countries also include the US, Germany, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China, the Netherlands, the UK, and France.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 3, 2023
How iPhone passcode is helping thieves steal your money and data

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New York: The passcode in iPhones that helps people unlock their devices is now giving thieves easy access to steal their money and data at public places.
According to Wall Street Journal, using a remarkably low-tech trick, thieves watch iPhone owners tap their passcodes, then steal their targets’ phones and their digital lives.
A 31-year-old senior economist at a workforce intelligence startup lost all photos, contacts and notes in her iPhone 13 Pro Max which was snatched at a bar in Midtown Manhattan and about $10,000 vanished from her bank account in just 24 hours.
“With only the iPhone and its passcode, an interloper can within seconds change the password associated with the iPhone owner’s Apple ID,” said the report.
This would lock the victim out of their account, which includes anything stored in iCloud.
“The thief can also often loot the phone’s financial apps since the passcode can unlock access to all the device’s stored passwords,” it added.
When the password change is complete, the software offers an option to force other Apple devices, such as Macs or iPads, to sign out of the Apple account, so a victim couldn’t turn to those devices to regain access.
The Apple software never requires the user to enter an older password before setting a new one.

With the new password, the thief can disable Find My iPhone. Disabling Find My iPhone feature also allows the thief to resell the iPhone.
As Apple spokesperson said that iPhone is the most secure consumer mobile device, and “we work tirelessly every day to protect all our users from new and emerging threats”.
“We sympathise with users who have had this experience and we take all attacks on our users very seriously, no matter how rare,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.
“We will continue to advance the protections to help keep user accounts secure.”
Nearly all of the victims had their iPhones stolen while they were out at night socialising at public places, pubs and bars.
In all cases, the iPhone owners were locked out of their Apple accounts.
“They then discovered thousands of dollars in financial thefts, including some combination of Apple Pay charges, drained bank accounts linked to phone apps and money taken from PayPal’s Venmo and other money-sending apps,” the report elaborated.
The same vulnerability is there in Google’s Android mobile operating system but the “higher resale value of iPhones makes them a far more common target”, according to law enforcement officials.
“Our sign-in and account-recovery policies try to strike a balance between allowing legitimate users to retain access to their accounts in real-world scenarios and keeping the bad actors out,” a Google spokesperson was quoted as saying.
Apple recently introduced the ability to use hardware security keys, little USB dongles, to protect the Apple ID.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 26, 2023