Be careful with job applications over the internet! Indian job seekers data is being downloaded by threat actors worldwide.

The trove of Indian job seekers data is being downloaded by threat actors worldwide.
India has a huge job market and the same goes for those seeking jobs. Now, hackers have taken advantage of the opportunity and leaked a treasure trove of data belong to millions of Indian job seekers.
The data was identified by Cyble, a cyber threat intelligence company, and noted personal details of around 29 million job-seeking Indians from different states dumped on the dark web and hacker forms for anyone to download.
Screenshot of the leaked data (Image: Cyble)

The original leak, according to Cyble, appears to be from a resume (CV) aggregator service that collects data from different job portals in India.
In its official press release , Cyble stated that a threat actor has posted approximately 2.3 GB of data in a zipped file on a hacking forum operating on the dark web, and this particular file belongs to the resume aggregator service.
According to the company, the data contains sensitive data of Indian job seekers including personal details like educational qualification, email IDs, phone numbers, work experience, and home address, etc. Here are some of the screenshots acquired from the leaked data:

Threat actors playing around Indian data is nothing new. In October 2019, more than 1.3 million credit and debit cards were dumped online. The data almost entirely (98%) belonged to Indian banking customers while the rest of the data belongs to banks in Columbia.
In February 2020, hackers were offering more than 461,976 payment card records stolen from some of the largest banks in India. Each card was being sold for just $9.

As for the current story, the incident is developing news and an in-depth investigation of the matter is ongoing. This article will be updated with new information. 

Misconfigured Elasticsearch server leds to exposure of Facebook user's personal data

The leak came after a misconfigured Elasticsearch server exposed Facebook users’ data involved in a previous breach.
For the last few years I have been complaining about guarantee of the security of personal data of Ugandans/Africans using Facebook and other social media platforms, Facebook has been embroiled in a range of controversies ranging from the social network’s hegemony over the internet to scandals like that of Cambridge Analytica in 2018. Not to forget just a few weeks ago a hacker was found selling personal data of 267 million Facebook users .
To tackle these, the company claims to take certain measures but despite that, slips here and there have continued to occur.
The latest in this episode was reported by Safety Detectives whose research team headed by Anurag Sen discovered that the data of 12 million Facebook users based in Vietnam has been leaked.
According to the researchers, the data was found on an Elasticsearch server and includes records found in a previous breach of Vietnamese users in January 2020.
However, not all of it is from Facebook and multiple sources are believed to be at play. Further, the details of how the perpetrators managed to scrape such a large amount are not known yet.
Amounting to over 3GB, most of the data includes personally identifiable information (PII) with the following records:
Full name

1. Hometown location
2. Current location

Education detail
Birthdates

1. GPS coordinates
2. Email addresses
3. Facebook usernames and IDs
4. Profile scores
5. Facebook usernames and IDFamily relations with other Facebook users

Here is a preview of the leaked data shared by Safety Detectives:

In their blog post , Safety Detectives raised concerns on the data breach saying that,

"Facebook decided to lock down some of its API functions, including data scraping, in order to make this practice more difficult to conduct and blocked users from using its reverse search tool. […] Clearly, there are still data-scraping vulnerabilities that can be exploited, especially where there is a mismatch of security protocols being implemented by third-party websites and Facebook."

All of these can have significant repercussions such as the attackers
blackmailing the victims with personal details, conducting sophisticated phishing attacks aided by social engineering, spamming users with both marketing and malicious messages.
But, that’s not it, even physically endangering someone’s security through the GPS coordinates revealed if they represent enough interest to the attackers.
To conclude, for the time being, the server has been taken down. Currently, we believe that Facebook yet again needs to ramp up its pen-testing capabilities and do a review of the data it allows third parties to access even for legitimate purposes.
As users, we can limit the type of information we share with any website considering that everything is hackable. Moreover, we are yet to hear Facebook’s reaction to these latest revelations and will keep on updating you.

DRCGovernment reports South Sudan military incursions into Upper Uélé and Ituri

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo took stock of the situation at the borders at the 32th meeting of the Council of Ministers chaired by the head of state Félix Antoine Tshisekedi tshilombo on 22 May 2020 by video conference ..
And in this respect, the national executive has reported South Sudan military incursions into the Ituri and Haut-Uélé provinces.
According to the record of the said council signed by the government spokesperson David-jolino Makelele, the services concerned were told to react "strongly" to these movements.
The Government of the Republic has also noted the continued evictions of Congolese from Angola via the city of Tshikapa in the province of Kasai.
With regard to militias at the border with Zambia (KALUBAMBA and KIBANGA), the Government has said that Congolese troops remain alert to deal with the threat in case negotiations under the aegis of the CFDC do not stop ..
The National Executive has also reported that the Southern African Development Community has finally accepted the setting up of an ad hoc committee on this.

When general maheshe of north Kivu surrendered to DRC gorvenment

Surrender of the leader of the  Armed group of Mr. MAHESHE with 120 of his militia men and 20 weapons thanks to the work of the  Provincial administration and the MONUSCO. No more rebel activities will he   operate on the Ngweshe-Walungu axis. The people of south kivu aspire to attaining peace and security. Calling on other rebellious groups to follow President Félix tshilombo's call.

116 new cases of covid-19 confirmed in the DRC (2141 total)

The of-19 pandemic that shakes the world continues to gain ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
116 new cases have been confirmed, including 112 in Kinshasa and 4 in Haut-Katanga for the only day of 23 May 2020 according to the newsletter of the technical secretary of the multisectoral response committee.
Since the official statement of this pandemic in rd Congo on March 10th, 2141 cases have been confirmed, including 2140 confirmed and 1 likely.
In addition, the Technical Secretariat reports that 5 new people have been healed from the-19, bringing the total healings to 317

At least 5 dead in an alleged ADF rebel trap in Irumu

At least 5 civilians killed, a burned vehicle and property looted in a tense ambush on the evening of Friday, 22 May 2020 by alleged ADF rebels at Byane-Mufutabangi, a village located about 4 kilometers of Ndalya on National Route number 4, in the territory of Irumu, Ituri province.
According to John Mabelle president of the civil society of Ndalya who delivers the news to 7,. CD this Saturday, the attackers attacked the village around 17 p. m local time, in heavy rain and barricaded the road.
On the spot, they burned a car leaving Komanda (Ituri) for the city of Beni (North Kivu) before killing civilians.
A woman, alleged to have been captured by FARDC elements that intervened to limit the damage.
" We cannot leave the region to leave space for the enemy, we are determined to accompany the FARDC elements as long as peace returns here. We call on the government to strengthen the military force in the city ", said a civil society actor.
Just before this attack, rebels had just made an foray into the village of Eringeti in Kasana, North Kivu province, during the day in which A civilian was shot.

USA army Tests New High-Velocity Cannon on USS Zumwalt, World’s Largest Destroyer

After years of being defenseless, the US Navy’s futuristic USS Zumwalt destroyer has test-fired its new high-velocity gun off the California coast.
The US Pacific Fleet announced on Wednesday the Zumwalt had “successfully executed a ‘structural test fire’ of the Mark 46 MOD 2 Gun Weapon System,” a 30-millimeter high-velocity cannon derived from the Mark 42 Bushmaster gun used in the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The system was also previously installed on the San Antonio-class amphibious landing dock, as well as the Littoral Combat Ship .
The test is part of a systematic shakedown of the ship’s systems designed to discover how firing and operating different systems affects the ship in terms of vibration, damage caused by operation or other hazards to the warship and its crew.
“The privilege of being a ‘first-in-class’ ship includes having the opportunity to systematically conduct testing across the breadth of systems installed onboard the ship,” Capt. Andrew Carlson, the Zumwalt’s commanding officer, said in the news release. “The real plus is conducting those tests, such as today’s live fire with the Mark 46 GWS, which provide tangible evidence of combat capability maturation.”
At nearly 16,000 tons of displacement, the USS Zumwalt is the world’s largest destroyer, outpacing the slightly smaller Type 055 destroyer Nanchang , built by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy.
Although the Zumwalt was commissioned in 2016, only now has it gained working weapons. The warship was initially designed around a pair of massive 155-millimeter rapid-fire cannons that would have given it the firepower of 16 land-based howitzer guns. However, as the cost ballooned to extraordinary heights, the Zumwalt was reimagined and rebuilt as a standard guided missile destroyer. Sputnik reported in late March that the ship’s combat system would soon be installed.
“Today’s event is the first in a chapter of live fire test events over the next year that will prove the lethal capability that these ships will bring to the fight,” Lt. Cmdr. Tim Kubisak, Zumwalt test officer, Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems, said in the statement.