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Ransomware cyber attacks spike to over 1.2 mn per month in H12022
The volume of ransomware threats detected spiked to more than 1.2 million per month between the January-June period, a report revealed
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Google blocks world's largest-ever web distributed DDoS cyber attack
Google has blocked the largest-ever web distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on a customer that peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS).
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Why govt banned VLC media player and is there link to Chinese hackers?
The website stopped functioning a few months back but came to user's notice very late
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China fumes as Pelosi visits Taiwan: What makes the island so important?
Taiwan is among the largest manufacturers of crucial chips and houses the world's largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)
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Paytm says data 'safe' after report of cyber breach affecting 3.4 mn users
After cyber-security company Firefox Monitor claimed that Paytm suffered a massive data breach two years back that may have exposed data of over 3.4 million users, Paytm said that all data is 'secure'
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Russian cyber soldiers launch disinformation campaign to target leaders: UK
Russian cyber soldiers have launched a new offensive against foreign leaders, targeting social media platforms with a large-scale disinformation campaign that seeks to legitimise the Ukraine invasion
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India sees 70% spike in ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure
According to the report by cybersecurity company Trellix, over half of adversarial advanced persistent threat actor activity originated from Russian and Chinese backed groups
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Cyberattack in Ukraine war affected thousands across Europe
The attack affected users from Poland to France and knocked off remote access to thousands of wind turbines in central Europe.
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What is ransomware?
People, organizations and the government are always on the guard against malware. And, of the lot, ransomware is among the most notorious. Watch this report to know more about the growing menace
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Data centres in India faced 51 million cyber attacks in 9 months
The data centres in India captured more than 51 million cyber attacks over their networks from over 40,000 unique IP addresses from April-December 2021, a new report showed
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Cyberattack hits Toyota supplier Denso in potential disruption
Denso "promptly responded" to an unauthorised access to its networks in Germany on Thursday
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Ukraine creates 'IT army' to hack Russian websites amid military operations
Facing massive cyber-attacks from Russia-sponsored threat actors, Ukraine has now assembled an 'IT army' tasked with specific cyber challenges, which reached nearly 2 lakh users on Telegram on Monday.
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Ukraine struggles with Internet blackout after Russian invasion
After attacking Ukrainian government websites and banks with massive cyber attacks, Russia-sponsored hackers are now hitting Internet infrastructure in the country to silence the locals amid a war.
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Russian pullout meets NATO scepticism, Ukraine defence website still hacked
Russia says video shows tanks leaving Crimea; Britain and US say pullout has yet to be confirmed
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Sansad TV says its YouTube channel was compromised by 'scamsters'
Sansad TV, which broadcasts live Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings said the channel's Youtube name was changed to "Ethereum" by the attacker
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Japan eyes tighter curbs on some companies to counter cyberattacks
The move would be part of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's initiative to defend Japan's economic security mainly against China
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Microsoft likely to buy cybersecurity firm RiskIQ, pay more than $500 mn
RiskIQ's customers include Facebook Inc, BMW AG, American Express Co and the US Postal Service
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Microsoft says new breach found in probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers
The company said it had found the compromise during its response to hacks by a team it identifies as responsible for earlier major breaches at SolarWinds and Microsoft
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Cyber fraud helpline brings banks and police together: Here's how it works
The helpline and its reporting platform have been made operational by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (14C) with support from the RBI, all major banks, payment banks, wallets
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Looking closely at retaliation over ransomware attack: Prez Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden said that his administration was "looking closely" at whether to retaliate against Russia for a recent ransomware attack
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