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Neptune RAT virus infecting Windows PCs through YouTube, steals passwords

Neptune RAT is capable of replacing users' crypto wallet addresses, stealing passwords from over 270 applications, including Chrome, and demanding ransom from them

WazirX partners with Zodia Custody as custodian ahead of creditor voting

The announcement comes at a time when creditors are tentatively scheduled to vote on the asset redistribution scheme between March 19 and 28

Elon Musk claims Ukraine link in cyberattack that caused outages on X

According to Elon Musk, a cyberattack was responsible for the outage on X, with potential involvement of 'a large, coordinated group and/or a country' with a lot of resources

X crashes multiple times on Monday, Elon Musk claims 'massive cyberattack'

Elon Musk, who acquired X (formerly Twitter) in 2022 for $44 billion, has yet to comment on the multiple X outages

Email cyberattacks rose by 197% during second half of 2024: Report

Cyberattacks on managed service providers (MSPs) also saw an increase, with phishing being the most commonly used method to infiltrate such networks

WazirX freezes $3 million in USDT nearly 7 months after cyberattack

This comes nearly seven months after an alleged security breach led to the loss of over $230 million worth of VDAs -about 45 per cent of the total crypto assets on the platform

Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan govt averaged 2.4 mn a day in 2024: Report

Taiwan's Government Service Network, or GSN, received a daily average of 2.4 million attacks last year, double the daily average of 1.2 million in 2023

India second most targeted nation in terms of cyberattacks: CloudSEK

India emerged as the second most targeted nation in terms of cyber attacks in the world as 95 Indian entities came under data theft attacks in 2024, cyber intelligence firm CloudSEK said in a report. According to the company's ThreatLandscape Report 2024 based on data monitoring in dark web, the US was the most targeted country, with 140 attacks, due to its economic dominance and digital infrastructure followed by India where data of 95 entities were attacked in 2024. "India: Rapid digitization exposed 95 entities, making it the second most attacked nation," the report said. Israel was on the third spot where 57 entities faced attacks due to geopolitical tensions. "The threat actors impacted various sectors in India, with the finance and banking sectors experiencing the highest number of victims at 20. This was followed by the government sector with 13 victims, telecommunications with 12, and the healthcare and pharma and education sectors with 10 and 9 victims, respectively," the .

Japan Airlines hit by cyberattack; domestic, international flights delayed

Japan Airlines has apologised for the inconvenience caused to passengers and assured that updates would follow as the situation evolves

China has taken efforts consistent with 'transnational repression': US

FBI and the US's CISA on November 13 issued a warning that the breach, initially discovered late last month, has since uncovered a wide-reaching and serious cyber espionage operation

At 5.2 billion, India ranks 2nd globally in encrypted cyberattacks: Report

The United States topped the list with 11 billion attacks between October 2023 and September 2024: Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Encrypted Attacks Report

API cyberattacks dominate as India sees record 1.2 billion hits in Q3

The onslaught included 271 million attacks on APIs, according to report by application security firm Indusface

Cyberattack on US telecommunications part of Chinese surveillance operation

Investigators now believe that a cyberattack on US telecommunications systems, initially thought to be targeting American presidential campaigns, is much more extensive

Star Health receives $68,000 ransom demand from cyberhacker after data leak

The company, whose shares have declined 11 per cent, has launched internal investigations and has taken legal action against Telegram and the hacker

Forensic probe by experts underway on the cyberattack: Star Health

A data breach recently at Star Health's servers reportedly put up for sale on the messaging platform Telegram sensitive data of 31 million customers, amounting to an estimated 7.24 terabytes

EU's new system to sanction people indulging in sabotage on Russia's behalf

The European Union on Tuesday set up a system for imposing sanctions against people accused of cyberattacks, information manipulation or acts of sabotage on behalf of Russia to undermine EU support for Ukraine. NATO warned earlier this year of Russian hostile state activity against the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the U.K., and said that the Kremlin's actions constitute a threat to allied security. The EU said that it too has detected an increasing number of a broad range of activities. It said that Russia also continues to disrupt satellite communications, violate European airspace and organize physical attacks against people. The challenge is that many of the activities fall below a threshold that might require a military response and both organizations are struggling to discourage such attacks effectively. The EU's new framework will allow it to target people, agencies or organizations that seek to undermine its fundamental values or security,

Cybersecurity is more than protecting personal data: Isro chief Somnath

In this era, when infrastructure built over the years is vulnerable to cyber attacks, it is very important to build an ecosystem to develop cyber security tools and solutions, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman S Somanath said on Thursday. He laid the foundation stone for 'Cyber Nalanda', a state-of-the-art cyber security research and development centre, the brainchild of SISA, a global forensics-driven cybersecurity solutions company, that is coming up in Bengaluru. "I was from a generation of engineers who started their career without knowing computers. The transitioning from that time to now has been tremendous," said Somanath. According to him, at one point, security was nothing but anti-virus. "But now, as applications are expanding, threats are also expanding. Cyber security threat is not limited to theft of personal data alone. It is now at a much greater scale -- it is also to do with the security of the nation itself," said Somanath. He pointed out that the vario

X services restored after brief global outage; cause still unclear

X outage, which lasted several minutes on Wednesday, resulted in pages failing to load. Many users encountered a "something went wrong, try reloading" message on their screens

How lessons learned from 2016 campaign led US to be open about Iran hack

The 2016 presidential campaign was entering its final months and seemingly all of Washington was abuzz with talk about how Russian hackers had penetrated the email accounts of Democrats, triggering the release of internal communications that seemed designed to boost Donald Trump's campaign and hurt Hillary Clinton's. Yet there was a notable exception: The officials investigating the hacks were silent. When they finally issued a statement, one month before the election, it was just three paragraphs and did little more than confirm what had been publicly suspected that there had been a brazen Russian effort to interfere in the vote. This year, there was another foreign hack, but the response was decidedly different. US security officials acted more swiftly to name the culprit, detailing their findings and blaming a foreign adversary this time, Iran just over a week after Trump's campaign revealed the attack. They accused Iranian hackers of targeting the presidential campaigns of b

Apparent cyberattack leaves Seattle airport facing internet outages

An apparent cyberattack disrupted internet, phones, email and other systems at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for a third day on Monday as Port of Seattle officials worked to investigate the outages and restore full service. We're working around the clock to get necessary systems back online and to mitigate impacts to our passengers, the airport's aviation managing director Lance Lyttle said in a press conference Sunday. Lyttle said the airport is investigating with the help of outside experts and is working closely with federal partners, including the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection. Officials have not released details about the full scope of the outage, but Lyttle said it was not affecting TSA's ability to screen passengers. Some airlines, including Delta and Alaska Airlines, reported no service interruptions from the outage. Both of the airlines use Sea-Tac as a hub. Still, the outage did affect the Port of Seattle's baggage sorting