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Written by  Rohit Srivastwa Seqrite’s Cyber Intelligence Labs (https://seqrite.com) working closely with Partner,  seQtree InfoServices  (https://seqtree.com/)  recently tracked a broadcast advertisement on a Darknet platform where an underground actor had advertised access to the servers and database dump of an unspecified  Internet Registry . Following a detailed research the team identified the affected organization as  India’s National Internet Registry: IRINN (Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers ) which comes under NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India). The sample screenshots (shared by actor) confirmed that compromise was real. As per the standard protocol, we have contacted the  appropriate agencies  and sensitized them about the possible breach at IRINN. Here is the detailed sequence of events related to this compromise: Upon noticing the broadcast advertisement,  seQtree and Seqrite  teams started ...

Myanmar’s Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe claimed that ARSA terrorists are trying to create an Islamic Republic in Northern Rakhine. “These terrorists are trying to dismantle the local administrative structure, he said while talking with foreign diplomats at Nay Pyi Taw. He said that the police have been taking the main role to protect the civilian population, but the military have now been requested to assist the police in view of the growing terrorist threat in northern Rakhine. Myanmar’s National Security Advisor U Thaung Tun stressed that the acts of terror have serious implications not only for the country but the region and beyond. “It is a clear indication that the terrorists planned and executed the attacks to undermine efforts of the Government and the international community to achieve peace, stability, and sustainable development in Rakhine State,” he said at the same briefing. He said that the 25th August 2017 was Myanmar’s Black Friday...

On the eve of Bakr-Eid, chief of Ansar Gazawat-ul-Hind, al-Qaida's Kashmir cell, Zakir Musa issued a 10-minute audio message, threatening to "liberate" India from the rule of "cow-worshipping" PM Modi and Hindus. Musa, former Hizbul Mujahideen terroriost, also warned the government against deporting Rohingya Muslims in Jammu. Last week, the Centre had said that it intended to deport all the estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India. Around 6,000 of them live in Jammu. Lashing out at Pakistan army and government for betraying Kashmir's jihadi movement by supporting the US in its war against "mujahideen", Musa said Islamabad "shut down training camps (for terrorists), martyred many Kashmir-centric mujahideen and put some behind bars". The message was released on YouTube channel Ansar Ghazwa and circulated by his followers on messaging platforms. Earlier, the outfit's media wi...

Myanmar security forces fired mortars and machine guns at terrified Rohingya villagers fleeing northern Rakhine State for Bangladesh on Saturday, according to an AFP reporter and a border official at the scene, as clashes which have killed scores continued for a second day. The fighting, concentrated around remote border villages, is between suspected Rohingya militants and Myanmar security forces, but is increasingly sweeping in civilians — from the Muslim minority as well as local Buddhists and Hindus. Rakhine State has become a crucible of religious hatred focused on the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, who are reviled and perceived as illegal immigrants in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Violence has again flared throughout the region, leaving at least 92 dead since early Friday, according to an official toll, and forcing thousands of Rohingya to flee towards Bangladesh. But authorities there have refused to let most of them in, stranding thousands of people, ma...

  Slowly and steadily we are able to understand why Lt Colonel Purohit was jailed by the then UPA government that was led by Sonia Gandhi. Soon after he is released out of the jail, he has started revealing information that we never imagined in our wildest of the dreams. Yes, Lt Col Purohit has said that Dawood was in Mumbai in the year 2005. Now this raises question on the ruling government because how the most wanted criminal so easily sneak into our nation? The most wanted, Dawood Ibrahim was in Mumbai!!! Yes, Lt Colonel Purohit had all the details of Dawood Ibrahim’s visit to Mumbai. Officer had successfully gained access to even to the people with whom Dawood had links and movements in India. Perhaps this officer knew something more that could destroy a political party. Dawood’s visit had grabbed the attention of few newspapers and it was published in June 5 th or 6 th June, 2005 in certain newspapers. Dawood was acting like a pivot between ISI and the ...

Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari sparked a new controversy on his last day of office by taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In one of his interviews to the Rajya Sabha TV, Ansari said there is a feeling of unease and a sense of insecurity among Muslims in the country and got a sarcastic rebuttal from PM Modi in an epic farewell speech for former VP. But former RAW officer and author of a Stellar work on RAW “Mission R&WA” R K Yadav had more shocking revelations about former ambassador to Iran Hamid Ansari (1990). Mr. R K Yadav who is quite active on twitter in a series of tweets revealed a lot of details about Mr Ansari’s stay in Teheran as Ambassador to Iran in 1990. In his book Mission R&AW, he dedicated two pages to the “worst experience” that the RAW operatives posted in Tehran had to undergo during Ansari’s posting there. In the chapter “Bizarre R&AW Incidents”, he wrote about how the wives of the mission staff were furious with Ansari ...

The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not the first time UN peacekeepers have been accused of assault. Last year, five Uruguayan soldiers were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a UN base. In that case a video which purported to show the attack was posted on the internet, leading to protests in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and calls for the UN to leave the country. There have also been demands that UN soldiers should be stripped of their immunity and be tried by Haitian courts. Monday's ruling was the first time that UN personnel have been tried and sentenced while still in the country. Haitian Justice Minister Michel Brunache said the verdict was a small step in the right direction but that "we expected more from the UN and the Pakistani government". The UN peacekeeping mission has been deployed in Haiti since 2004. I...

A massive rally has been organised by the Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation in Jandali area of PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) to demand freedom from Pakistan.  Local leader Liyaqat Khan said, "Pakistan sends terrorists here to ruin this peaceful place". In a video shared by ANI, the protestors are seen raising pro-freedom slogans and raising banners to demand freedom from Pakistan. This is not the first time that demands of freedom from Pakistan have been raised from the troubled region. In the past as well, anti-Pakistan protests have taken place across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Pakistani forces have been accused of committing human rights violations and inflicting atrocities on the people of PoK.  On April 24, 2017, hundreds of locals in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir's Kotli area took to the streets to protest against the forcible land-grabbing by Pakistan Army. The protesters raised anti-Pakistan army and anti-Pakistan government slogans. On Feb...