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Ax Sharma

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As seen in: Bleeping Computer, Security Boulevard, Medium, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Australia, Yahoo News Philippines, Yahoo Singapore, TechCrunch, WIRED en Español, WIRED Magazine, Ars Technica and
Covers:  Technology, cybersecurity, malware, cybercrime, government surveillance, cyber scams, digital privacy
Security Researcher | Tech Journalist | 📰 Bylines + seen on: BBC, BleepingComputer, Channel 5, TechCrunch | ✉️ ax@hey.ax

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Ax Sharma is an Indian-origin British security researcher, journalist and TV subject matter expert with a focus on malware analysis, open source software security, and cybercrime investigations. His works and expert analyses have frequently been featured on leading media outlets like the BBC, Channel 5, Fortune, The Register, TheHackerNews, BleepingComputer, among others. He's an active community member of the OWASP Foundation and the British Association of Journalists (BAJ).

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35,000 code repos not hacked-but clones flood GitHub to serve malware

35,000 code repos not hacked-but clones flood GitHub to serve malware

Thousands of GitHub repositories were forked (copied) with their clones altered to include malware, a softwar…

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Fedora ditches 'No Rights Reserved' software over patent concerns

Fedora ditches 'No Rights Reserved' software over patent concerns

The Fedora Project has announced that it will no longer permit Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' aka CC0-…

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Google blocks site of largest computing society for being 'harmful'

Google blocks site of largest computing society for being 'harmful'

Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research …

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Security advisory accidentally exposes vulnerable systems

Security advisory accidentally exposes vulnerable systems

A security advisory for a vulnerability (CVE) published by MITRE has accidentally been exposing links to remo…

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Django fixes SQL Injection vulnerability in new releases

Django fixes SQL Injection vulnerability in new releases

Django, an open source Python-based web framework has patched a high severity vulnerability in its latest rel…

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PyPI package 'keep' mistakenly included a password stealer

PyPI package 'keep' mistakenly included a password stealer

PyPI packages 'keep,' 'pyanxdns,' 'api-res-py' were found to be containing a backdoor due to the presence of …

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Telegram admits it couldn't police exam-leak channels, India tells court

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By Ax Sharma Verified
| Bleeping Computer Verified
India's government has told the Delhi High Court that Telegram was warned about two weeks before it was blocked, and that the platform conceded it could not proactively detect the channels selling leaked exam papers. The nationwide block, imposed ahead of a national medical exam, disrupted Telegram access well beyond India, reaching users as far away as the UAE. Telegram says it cooperated throughout and that the ban is unlawful.
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Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization

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By Ax Sharma Verified
| Bleeping Computer Verified
Google has begun notifying advertisers that it will start using IP addresses for ad measurement and personalization across the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK and Switzerland on or shortly after August 3, 2026. IP addresses are received by online services on nearly every request, and the practice is routine across much of the world. But doing it in the UK and EU, where an IP address is regulated personal data, is new.
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India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it

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| Bleeping Computer Verified
India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the platform was used to sell access to leaked exam materials. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accuses Indian telecom Reliance of using BGP hijacking to enforce the block, disrupting access for users as far away as the UAE. Digital rights group, the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) calls the ban a disproportionate, "constitutionally incompatible" response to exam fraud.
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No.

How is social media changing news?

There seems to be a disconnect between Twitter vs. reality at times. Too much needs fact-checking.
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