CYBERATTACKS

Thales' 2024 Cloud Security Study indicates cloud resources are primary cyberattack targets in India. Firms prioritize security spending, with 37% facing breaches affecting sensitive data. Digital sovereignty, multi-factor authentication, and addres...

A report by a think-tank based out of the US analyzed satellite images from Cuba which revealed the presence of Chinese spying facilities. This is a direct threat to the US. Law makers have urged the Biden administration to tackle this threat.

Apart from continuously checking network activities and server logs to detect malicious intrusions, banks will have to monitor critical payment systems such as SWIFT (the messaging system to confirm cross-border fund transfers), card network (which ...

Indonesia experienced a significant cyberattack that affected over 230 public agencies, including ministries, causing disruptions to various government services such as immigration and operations at major airports. The attackers demanded an $8 milli...

A major cyber incident in these IT service providers may in turn impact multiple regulated entities simultaneously, causing a cyberattack on a system-wide level. "In the recent past, multiple incidents involving payment and settlement systems have l...

The US is concerned about growing cyber threats from China. The FBI Director has warned that there are multi-pronged threats against the US interest. Analysts have noted that there is a need for joint efforts to tackle this growing menace.

In recent times, the US has been attacked by Iran, Russia and China based hackers who have targeted various water utility projects. This has exposed the country’s outdated infrastructure and has shown a lackadaisical approach in dealing with cyber-c...

This is the second time in six month where BSNL has suffered a data breach. Athenian Tech chief executive Kanishk Gaur told ET, the breach involved more than 278 GB of data from the state-owned telecom operation, including server snapshots, which ca...

Infosys faces multiple lawsuits over a cyberattack on its US subsidiary, leading to data breaches and legal actions from various parties, including eDiscovery vendors and financial information exposure.

A suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, RedJuliett, has intensified its targeting of Taiwanese organisations, including government, education, technology, and diplomacy sectors, ahead of Taiwan's presidential elections in January. The cyb...

Internet outages in India on June 18 affected over 45,000 Reliance Jio users and 9,000 Bharti Airtel users due to DNS server downtime, impacting popular applications like WhatsApp and Facebook.

Phishing attacks have become more sophisticated, with cybercrooks using social engineering to impersonate top corporate executives and trick employees into sending money. Fraudsters are also using artificial intelligence, launching bot-based attacks...

TikTok takes measures to stop cyberattack targeting brand and celebrity accounts, including CNN. ByteDance challenges law requiring TikTok sale by January to avoid ban.

Rust is a powerful coding language released by the Rust Foundation backed by five companies – AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. The company was founded in 2015.

Cyberattacks exploiting vulnerabilities tripled in 2023, driven by MOVEit. Extortion rose while stolen credentials fell. Financially motivated incidents had a $46,000 median loss. Concerns persist around GenAI and deepfakes in cyber threats.

Roku, which had more than 80 million active accounts, said the hackers did not gain access to any sensitive information such as full credit card numbers or other payment details.

Apple, in its threat notification mail, said it detected that the user was “being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone” which is associated with a particular Apple ID.

German software developer Andres Freund, who works for Microsoft out of San Francisco, discovered that the latest version of the open source software program XZ Utils had been deliberately sabotaged by one of its developers, a move that could have c...

VNDirect, Vietnam's third largest broker in terms of transactions handled according to the Ho Chi Minh City exchange, has been disconnected from the trading system since Monday.