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A cybercriminal group with the alias ‘John Wick on Thursday said in a tweet that it did not hack <keyword id="4225623" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Paytm-Mall">Paytm Mall</keyword>, even as the group claimed responsibility for briefly hacking the Twitter account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="77902203" title="Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked — asks followers for Bitcoin and Ethereum donations" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> "This account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall," John Wick posted after taking over the Twitter account. The authenticity of the claims could not be immediately verified. The development comes after cyber-risk intelligence firm Cyble on August 30 wrote in a blog post that "John Wick" was able to upload a backdoor/Adminer on Paytm Mall application/website. The group gained unrestricted access to the entire databases of Paytm Mall, Cyble said in the blog post. "According to the messages forwarded to us by the source, the perpetrator claimed the hack happened due to an insider at Paytm Mall. The claims, however, are unverified, but possible," Cyble said. Paytm Mall said that the claims are "absolutely false". "We would like to assure that all users, as well as company data, is completely safe and secure. We invest heavily in our data security, as you would expect," a Paytm Mall spokesperson said in a statement. "We have been investigating the claims of a possible hack and data breach, and haven't found any security lapses yet. "We also have a Bug Bounty programme, under which we reward responsible disclosure of any security risks. We extensively work with the security research community and safely resolve security anomalies," the spokesperson said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/pm-modi-twitter-account-hacked-heres-what-the-hacker-had-tweeted/articleshow/77902203.cms">Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked — asks followers for Bitcoin and Ethereum donations</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/rise-in-work-from-anywhere-will-lead-to-more-outsourcing-thats-an-opportunity-for-tcs-infosys-and-hcl-tech/articleshow/77864248.cms">TCS, Infosys and HCL Tech have the most to gain from post COVID wave of outsourcing</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/india-bans-pubg-wechat-and-118-other-mobile-applications/articleshow/77890776.cms">India bans PUBG, Ludo World, and 116 other Chinese mobile applications</a>

'John Wick' hacked PM Modi's Twitter handle to say they didn't hack Paytm Mall

<ul><li>The official handle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked early morning on Thursday.</li><li>The hacker behind the breach was asking users to donate Bitcoin and Ethereum to the PM's National Relief Fund.</li><li>The tweets have no been removed and Twitter is 'actively investigating' the issue.</li><li>A cybercriminal group called 'John Wick' has claimed responsibility for the attack.</li></ul>The Twitter handle of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked on Thursday morning. And, just like with former US President <keyword id="15962" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Barack-Obama">Barack Obama</keyword>, SpaceX CEO <keyword id="6355315" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="elon-musk">Elon Musk</keyword> and others who were hacked in July, the person behind the PM Modi's account was asking users to donate cryptocurrency — this time under the guise donating to the PM's <a href="https://pmnrf.gov.in/"><h3 style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 4px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.3;">National Relief Fund</h3></a>. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="76989235" title="Hackers took over dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, and Apple and used them to post bitcoin scam links" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> However, Twitter claims that this particular breach was not due to a compromise of its systems or service. "There is no indication or evidence of any correlation between this account compromise and the incident that took place in July," the company said in a statement shared with IANS. The tweets have now been removed from the social networking platform. Twitter has confirmed that it's aware of the malicious activity and is taking steps to secure the compromised account. "We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted," a Twitter spokeswoman told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-cyber-india-modi/twitter-account-of-india-pm-modis-personal-website-apparently-hacked-idUSKBN25T3GH">Reuters</a>. <div type="image" title="modi tweet_edited" msid="77903050" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Screenshot of hacker&amp;#39;s tweets via PM Modi&amp;#39;s personal handle&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The handle @narendramodi_in has over 2.5 million followers. It should not be confused with Modi's personal Twitter account, @narendramodi, which has over 61 million followers. 'John Wick' claims responsibility The attack was reportedly perpetrated by a cybercriminal group called 'John Wick'. "This account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), we have not hacked Paytm Mall," the group posted after taking over the Twitter account. The authenticity of the claims has not yet been verified. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="77906458" title="'John Wick' hacked PM Modi's Twitter handle to say they didn't hack Paytm Mall" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> This is the second bitcoin scam on Twitter in less than two months Less than two months ago, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts, including Microsoft founder <keyword id="45830" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bill-Gates">Bill Gates</keyword> and singer Kanye West, were breached by a malicious actor. The hackers were able to seize control of these accounts by exploiting the loopholes in Twitter's own internal administration tools. "Since the attack, we've significantly limited access to our internal tools and systems to ensure ongoing account security while we complete our investigation," the social network said in a statement. While it may be obvious to some that the tweets promising to double your Bitcoin were a scam, the attackers were still able to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/hackers-just-took-over-dozens-of-high-profile-twitter-accounts-including-cash-app-bill-gates-and-ripple-and-used-them-to-post-bitcoin-scam-links/articleshow/76989235.cms">reportedly</a> run off with more than $100,000. What makes the situation more complicated is that cryptocurrencies are extremely hard to track. The accounts which were used to accommodate the transactions were emptied out before they could be identified. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/rise-in-work-from-anywhere-will-lead-to-more-outsourcing-thats-an-opportunity-for-tcs-infosys-and-hcl-tech/articleshow/77864248.cms">TCS, Infosys and HCL Tech have the most to gain from post COVID wave of outsourcing</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/india-bans-pubg-wechat-and-118-other-mobile-applications/articleshow/77890776.cms">India bans PUBG, Ludo World, and 116 other Chinese mobile applications</a>

Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked — asks followers for Bitcoin and Ethereum donations

Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="narendra-modi" source="Orion">Narendra Modi</keyword>'s personal Twitter handle was restored after getting "very briefly compromised," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a tweet on Sunday, after it shared a link promising a <keyword id="6354947" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bitcoin" source="Orion">bitcoin</keyword> giveaway. "The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any tweet shared must be ignored," PMO India said in a tweet. The account of Modi, who has more than 73.4 million followers, has now been restored. Before the account was restored, a tweet was shared with a URL on PM Modi's timeline which read, "India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country." Minutes later, another tweet was posted, saying, "Yes this account is hacked by John Wick (hckindia@tutanota.com), We have not hacked Paytm Mall." "We have 24X7 open lines of communication with the PM's Office and our teams took necessary steps to secure the compromised account as soon as we became aware of this activity. Our investigation has revealed that there are no signs of any other impacted accounts at this time," Twitter spokesperson told IANS. After Prime Minister Modi's account was compromised, #Hacked began trending in India. "Good Morning Modi ji, Sab Changa Si?," Srinivas BV, the national president of the Indian Youth Congress, tweeted. "Was the Twitter account of the Hon'ble PM shri #NarendraModi ji hacked? And promise of #Bitcoin !!" tweeted political activist Tehseen Poonawalla. Another user warned others about the link. "#PMmodi #modi account #hacked, please do not click on the link. It's a scam. ... Even PM's account is not safe. How safe will be Indian social media from hackers, manipulators, scammers and foreign influence? #Twitter verified security compromised?" Earlier, in September 2020, the Twitter account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website and mobile app was hacked by an unknown group with a series of tweets asking followers to donate to a relief fund through <keyword id="6357017" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cryptocurrency" source="Orion">cryptocurrency</keyword>. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/tega-industries-listing-tomorrow-gmp-at-300-indicates-strong-listing/articleshow/88230707.cms">Tega Industries’ listing tomorrow, GMP at ₹300 indicates strong listing</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/from-mukesh-ambani-to-gautam-adani-indias-billionaires-and-big-corporations-made-huge-promises-this-year-to-fight-climate-change/slidelist/88208860.cms">From Mukesh Ambani to Gautam Adani, India's billionaires and big corporations made huge promises this year to fight climate change</a>

Narendra Modi's Twitter account hacked with Bitcoin post — 'India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender'

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of <keyword id="9095853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="insider-today">Insider Today</keyword>. Please <a href="https://www.insider.com/insider-today">sign up here</a>.<h2>QUOTE OF THE DAY</h2>"The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and MyPillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic." — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-new-unproven-coronavirus-cure-oleandrin-hud-ben-carson-2020-8">an unnamed administration official</a>, discussing President Trump's fascination with Oleandrin, an unproven new COVID treatment being flogged by two of his advisers. <h2>WHAT'S HAPPENING</h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/politics/democratic-national-convention-speakers-schedule.html">The all-virtual Democratic Convention starts tonight, and will be on from 9-11 pm ET.</a> Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders have prime speaking slots. Republican John Kasich will also get a platform to excoriate Trump. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/states-plan-sue-trump-admin-usps-cuts-election-2020-8">Postal Service crisis deepens, with seven states preparing to sue the Trump administration. </a>They want to stop <keyword id="195495" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="USPS">USPS</keyword> cuts that they say will undermine mail-in balloting, which President Trump says is his intention. Speaker Pelosi summoned the House back into session to investigate the USPS controversy. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/16/portland-extremists-protest-gunfire/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_portland-protests-723pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans">White supremacist groups clashed with BLM protesters in Portland and elsewhere. </a>Extreme right groups including the Proud Boys and American Wolf showed up with sticks, paintball guns, and pepper spray, and fought with BLM demonstrators. At least two shots were fired in Portland. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-vaccine-timeline-trump-operation-warp-speed-timeline-2020-8">Operation Warp Speed won't reach most Americans by January 2021. </a>Even in the best case, most Americans wouldn't get a vaccine until March.<h2>VIEWS OF THE DAY</h2><div type="image" title="donald trump" height="450" width="600" msid="77599872" hostid="261"></div>Trump's plan to steal the election is simple and brilliantPresident Trump is now being explicit about why he wants to deny funding to the US Postal Service. He wants to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-usps-funding-sabotage-mail-voting-2020-8">reduce the impact of mail-in votes</a> by hurting the Postal Service's ability to deliver them in time for the votes to be counted.As far as election-rigging schemes go, this one is simple and brilliant.It does not involve hacking or fraud. It doesn't involve dumping boxes of ballots in rivers. It doesn't involve payoffs to corrupt election officials. It doesn't involve illegal gerrymandering or physical vote suppression. It doesn't involve rewriting election laws. It doesn't even involve the election system at all!Instead, it takes advantage of existing election laws, Trump's successful undermining of confidence in mail-in voting among GOP voters, and Trump's control of an otherwise unrelated arm of the federal government — the Postal Service.Behold the brilliance and simplicity:First, as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-candidate-leading-the-election-night-vote-in-november-may-not-win-2020-7">Insider's Grace Panetta reports</a>, Trump's bogus but frequent claims that mail-in voting involves massive fraud has made Republican voters less comfortable with vote-by-mail than Democratic voters. This and other factors may lead to more Democrats voting by mail than Republicans.Meanwhile, as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/deadlines-for-absentee-and-mail-ballot-in-every-state-2020-7">Panetta also reports</a>, laws in Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin and other key battleground states require that mail-in ballots be received by Election Day to count. If the ballots arrive late, the votes don't count.Meanwhile, a loyal Trump supporter now runs an organization that can determine when ballots arrive — the US Postal Service — and he is already reducing the speed with which the USPS delivers mail.Voila! —HB<div type="image" title="Chrissy Teigen covid 19 test" height="450" width="600" msid="77599879" hostid="261"></div>Cheap, mediocre COVID tests could be the pandemic's magic bullet. COVID testing, like almost every aspect of the American response to the pandemic, has been a disaster. Tests are expensive and exceedingly slow. You don't get your results back for days — or even weeks — meaning you're very likely to spend your most contagious hours spreading the virus as you wait for a result. Plus they're hard to get, so only a tiny fraction of the people who should be tested actually are tested. But finally, finally, there's a great, attainable, new idea for revolutionizing testing — a new testing protocol could stop the pandemic cold, and bring us the benefits of a vaccine without a vaccine. The basic notion is that we should mass produce very cheap, very fast, and somewhat inaccurate at-home COVID tests, and millions of us should take them daily. The architect of this plan is Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina, who's outlined his case in<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests.html"> the New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/how-to-test-every-american-for-covid-19-every-day/615217/">the Atlantic</a>, and in<a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest/2020/08/political-gabfest-biden-harris-ticket"> a podcast interview with me</a>, among other places. The technology exists. A few small companies have developed COVID saliva tests that you can do in 15 minutes at home. (The tests — essentially a strip of treated paper — works a bit like home pregnancy tests.) In Mina's scenario, we would mass produce these tests, which would cost $1 to $5 each, and tens of millions of us would take them every day — any kid before going to school, any worker before heading to the office. If you tested positive, you'd get the result immediately and you stay home. This would break chain after chain of transmission, and crush the pandemic as effectively as a vaccine. So why aren't we doing this? The FDA won't approve the cheapo tests because they're not as accurate as the gold-standard PCR tests. They use a different, less precise method, and only catch people with a higher level of circulating virus. But Mina points out that this is actually the strength of these cheap tests — which are more "contagiousness" tests than "diagnostic" tests. The gold-standard PCR tests catch tons of people way past their contagious period, when they have tiny amounts of coronavirus RNA but aren't actually infectious. The cheap tests catch virtually everyone who's actually contagious. More importantly, it catches them immediately, and while they're at home, so they know they're sick in 15 minutes, not days later when they've been out spreading the disease. 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The administration is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/us/politics/us-citizenship-fee-increase.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage">raising the cost of naturalization by 80%</a>, and also reducing fee waivers, punishing immigrants who have earned the right to become Americans.And as the New York Times discovered, Trump's immigration officials have hired a private company to<a href="https://www.insider.com/migrant-children-detained-hotels-deported-trump-border-ban-nyt-2020-8"> detain hundreds of migrants secretly in hotels,</a> outside the formal detention system, so they're not subject to the rules protecting them from maltreatment. Most or perhaps all of these detainees are children, some of them babies, and they are held in hotels before being rapidly expelled back to their home countries or handed over to Mexican child welfare officials. But that's not the truly diabolical part. The diabolical part is that the administration is deporting these hotel children without assigning them identification numbers. As the Times reports, "Searching for the children has been made nearly impossible because they are not being assigned identification numbers that would normally allow families to track their locations in the highly regulated federal detention system." You can argue about whether secret hotel detentions and summary expulsions are fit and proper American policies. Imagine if these were your children. You cannot argue — as a human being, as an American — that it is right to multiply the terror of children and the fears of their parents by intentionally hiding their identity, and making it impossible for their parents to find them. What possible purpose does this negligence serve, except to dehumanize these innocent children, and make their lives and the lives of their parents more miserable? This policy is evil. —DP<div type="image" title="2016 Democratic convention" height="1000" width="2000" msid="77599886" hostid="261"></div>Pouring one out for the real DNC and RNC The <a href="https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Bizarro">Bizarro</a> Democratic National Convention starts this week in "Milwaukee." There will be a video control room and a podium set up in <a href="https://www.wuwm.com/post/how-milwaukee-got-nickname-cream-city#stream/0">Cream City</a>, but none of the delegates will be there, nor will almost all the political reporters. Even Joe Biden will not be leaving the cozy confines of Delaware. The DNC conceded months ago that the event would be nearly all-virtual, so they've had some time to plan. Republicans (or more specifically, Trump) still held out hope for a massive in-person convention as recently as last month. As a result, the RNC (which runs this Friday through next Monday) will likely be more a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants experiment in nightly television.I'm a political journalist, so I pay more attention to these <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/losing-democratic-republican-political-conventions-would-hurt-seriously-2020-5">absurd quadrennial displays of hyper-partisan navel-gazing</a> more than the average American (and<a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1295340494508236802"> that's to their credit</a>). But I've got to admit, I'm irrationally bummed out that the Democratic and Republican National Conventions aren't happening this year. I would have liked to have seen whether dissident Bernie Sanders supporters would truly play ball with the victorious establishment this time around — rather than storm the press tent in anger like they did in Philadelphia four years ago.I'm wondering if Trump supporters would have put together a more despicable RNC-adjacent event than the one <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/at-gays-for-trump-party-the-former-fringe-celebrates-trumps">headlined by Milo Yiannopoulous</a> that tried to sell Islamophobia, white nationalism, and the alt-right as part of a gay rights agenda.Protests are a big part of every convention, but with such political and social unrest as we've seen this year, I'd have been curious to see exactly who showed up — and how the city, the police, and the protests would make it all work. 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