Ransomware Virus

The Supreme Court on Friday said it would hear on April 22 pleas seeking a probe into the alleged unauthorised use of Pegasus spyware for surveillance of journalists among others. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh deferred the hearing after solicitor general Tushar Mehta, seeking an adjournment, said the matter had come up after a long time. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioners, said only two petitions were listed on Friday and there were other connected petitions, which required a hearing. The bench directed the registry to fix all the matters on the issue on April 22. On August 25, 2022, the top court said the technical panel appointed by it to probe the unauthorised use of Pegasus found some malware in five of 29 examined cellphones but it could not be held that the Israeli spyware was used. After perusing the report submitted by former apex court Justice R V Raveendran, the top court said the Central government did not cooperate with the

India, which detected over 2 lakh ransomware attacks in 2023, is likely to see similar onslaughts, cyber security firm Kaspersky said on Wednesday. Kaspersky General Manager for South Asia Jaydeep Singh said researches conducted by the firm have shown that India is consistently among the top 12 targeted countries and territories for Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). "For three years in a row, file encryption has been the top problem faced by enterprises and organisations worldwide and in India. From the basic ransomware attacks like the Wannacry in 2017, we have reached the era of Ransomware 3.0 where we see triple extortion in the form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), reselling of data, and public blackmailing. "This form of attack has a wider impact on the financial and reputation aspect of Indian companies," Singh said. Kaspersky claims to have detected over 2 lakh ransomware incidents on businesses in the country in 2023. According to the company, major ransomware gr

Law enforcement from 11 different countries took part in the operation, which seized 11,000 domains used by LockBit and its affiliates to facilitate ransomware, an FBI official said

Based on Linux, the Maya OS is powered by an end point detection and protection system called Chakaravyuh, which is said to act as a barrier against online threats

Between 2021 and 2022, researchers saw the average number of attacks experienced per customer in the manufacturing, utilities and energy industry increased by 238 per cent

The leaked data includes employees' social security numbers and bank account details

Nearly 85 per cent of organisations were attacked by ransomware at least once in the past 12 months, up from 76 per cent, a report showed on Thursday

A new mobile banking 'Trojan' virus -- SOVA -- which can stealthily encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall is targeting Indian customers, the country's federal cyber security agency said in its latest advisory. The virus has upgraded to its fifth version after it was first detected in the Indian cyberspace in July, it said. "It has been reported to CERT-In that Indian banking customers are being targeted by a new type of mobile banking malware campaign using SOVA Android Trojan.The first version of this malware appeared for sale in underground markets in September 2021 with the ability to harvest user names and passwords via key logging, stealing cookies and adding false overlays to a range of apps," the advisory said. SOVA, it said, was earlier focusing on countries like the US, Russia and Spain, but in July 2022 it added several other countries, including India, to its list of targets. The latest version of this malware, according to the advisory, hides itse

Industry experts point to a spike in the use of Ransomware as a Service (RaaS), a SaaS-based attack vector. Criminals can buy it on the dark web and needn't know how to code it in order to use it

The data included students' names, schools, dates of birth, gender, CPS identification numbers, state student identification numbers, class schedule information

The Japanese business daily Nikkei reported Tuesday the problem was ransomware

The ransomware attacks on high-profile targets such as corporations, government agencies and municipal organisations globally increased by a whopping 767% from last year

The anonymous hackers behind Maze have made headlines in recent months for publicly holding their victims hostage by threatening to leak company information if the target doesn't pay the ransom

Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Security identified three families as the most notorious -- Ryuk, Purga and Stop

Cyber security firms scrambled to understand the scope and impact of the attacks