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Daily Cyber Threat & Scam Intelligence

Real-time breakdown of breaking Indian cyber scams, UPI phishing traps, malicious APK trojans, and CERT-In security advisories with actionable citizen mitigation checklists.

🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

CBI & State Cyber Warning: Digital Arrest Fraud Calls Surge in Metro Cities

Maharashtra Cyber State HQ and CERT-In warn citizens against fake CBI, Customs, and Cyber Police video calls demanding money under threat of digital arrest....

SOURCE: CERT-IN SECURITY ADVISORY
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🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-l...

SOURCE: THE HACKER NEWS
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🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that's specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. ...

SOURCE: THE HACKER NEWS
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🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that a...

SOURCE: THE HACKER NEWS
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🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working...

SOURCE: THE HACKER NEWS
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🚨 SCAM ADVISORY 2026-08-22

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit, and More

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps...

SOURCE: THE HACKER NEWS
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