Page 6 - Cyberattacks

Cyberattack not cause of air traffic issues that snarled flights: UK

The British government said Tuesday that a breakdown at the nationwide air traffic control system that saw hundreds of flights delayed and cancelled was not caused by a cyberattack. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the problem was caused by a technical fault at flight control operator National Air Traffic Services. The company said the outage had hit its ability to process flight plans automatically, meaning that for several hours the plans had to be input manually, a much slower process that meant fewer flights could take off and land. Harper told the BBC that it is going to take some days to get people back to where they should be. The problem hit on a late-summer holiday Monday that is one of the busiest days of the year for air travel. Aviation analytics firm Cirium said that by Monday afternoon, 232 flights due to leave UK airports and 271 arriving flights had been cancelled. Dozens of flights were cancelled at Heathrow, Europe's busiest air hub, which warned of knock-on .

Nearly 1.1 billion cyberattacks blocked worldwide in Q2FY24: Report

Cyberattacks on Indian websites in Q2 increased 90 per cent compared to Q1, according to the survey by Indusface

Ransomware criminals dump kids' private files online after school hacks

The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalisations, abusive parents, truancy even suicide attempts. Please do something, begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep. Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a USD 1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records and discrimination complaints. Rich in digitised data, the nation's schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files. Often strapped for cash, districts are grossly ill-equipped not just to defend themselves but to

Hackers steal data, demands $4.5 mn from Reddit and tweaks in API policy

A ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Reddit in February and has demanded money and policy changes in exchange for 80GB data stolen from the server

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US federal govt agencies targeted in major global cyberattack: Report

A concerted large hacking campaign, which began two weeks ago, has hit major universities and state and local governments across the US

67% of firms to outsource key cybersecurity functions as attacks spike

About 67% of Indian enterprises are looking at outsourcing key areas of their security landscape to manage security service providers (MSSPs) in the next three years, according to a new IDC report

500 mn cyberattacks blocked in India in Q1 2023, attacks grew 29% globally

500 million cyberattacks were blocked in India out of 1 billion global attacks, representing a sharp increase of over 29 per cent in the number of cyberattacks in Q1, 2023, globally

India sees 18% rise in weekly cyberattacks in Jan-Mar 2023: Report

Global weekly attacks rose by 7 per cent during the reported quarter with each organization facing an average of 1,248 attacks per week

Pegasus-style spyware attack hit journos, politicians via iPhone exploits

The fear of Pegasus-style spyware attack resurfaced on Tuesday after researchers at Microsoft and the digital rights group Citizen Lab identified new victims

Cyberabad police crackdown after data of 670 mn people stolen: What we know

Last week, the Police arrested a Faridabad resident Vinay Bhardwaj, who was allegedly involved in stealing, holding and selling personal and confidential data

State govt web domains 'extremely vulnerable' to cyberattacks: Report

More than 700 credentials with passwords were leaked to the dark web in 2022, says study by cybersecurity firms

Technology firms' engagement with ethical hackers at all-time high

As cyberattacks shoot up, tech firms are engaging with independent researchers more than ever

India highest attacked country by hackers in Asia, 2nd globally in 2022

India was the highest attacked country by hackers in Asia and the second-most attacked country globally (after the US) in 2022, a report showed on Wednesday.

Telangana saw over 10,000 cases of cyber crime in 2021, reveals report

Cyber crimes in Telangana have doubled to 10,303 cases in 2021 from 5,025 cases in 2020 with Cyberabad topping the chart with 4,412 felonies, according to a report. Revealing data, the Telangana Socio Economic Outlook 2023 said,"As many as 10,303 cases of cyber crime were registered in 2021 as against 5,025 cases in 2020, an increase of 105.03 per cent. The highest number of cases were reported from the police commissionerates of Cyberabad (4,412) followed by Hyderabad (3,303) and Rachakonda (1,548), it said. Cyber crime is a rapidly evolving transnational crime committed across borders and affects individuals and societies globally, said the report. It said the Telangana government is trying to use technical assistance in capacity-building, prevention, creating awareness, increasing cooperation, collecting data, researching and analysing cybercrime, the report said. The Telangana Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (T4C) was set up in 2021 to provide round-the-clock assistance to victi

Pak minister says cyber attack could be behind nationwide power breakdown

Pakistan's Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir said the government is probing the massive January 22 electricity outage across the country from different angles

Geopolitical instability raises threat of 'catastrophic' cyberattack: Rpt

The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 findings were based on surveys, workshops and interviews with over 300 experts and C-suite executives

Global cyberattacks rise 38% with healthcare most targeted in India: Report

The top three most attacked industries in 2022 were Healthcare, Education/Research, and Government/Military

Departures resume after FAA lifts ground stop; no evidence of cyberattack

Flight-tracking website FlightAware showed 4,948 delays for US flights at 10:05 a.m.

Post-pandemic world reels from surge in cyberattacks; here's how to be safe

Take a look some of the biggest data breaches of 2022 and how you can protect yourself