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In crosshairs of ransomware crooks, cybersecurity insurers struggle

Cybercriminals who hack into corporate and government networks to steal sensitive data for extortion routinely try to learn how much cyber insurance coverage the victims have

200,000 tech support scams detected in India in Q1 2021: Report

Tech support fraud remains a massive issue in India.

Scale, details of Kaseya ransomware attack affecting 17 countries emerge

An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang infected thousands of victims in at least 17 countries on Friday, largely through firms that remotely manage IT infrastructure for multiple customers

Microsoft warns Windows users of unpatched critical vulnerability

The bug can help hackers install malicious programmes and access key data on their systems.

A quiet leader: Why Malaysia ranks high in global list of cybersecurity

While neither a technology powerhouse nor a prolific hacker, Malaysia's standing comes from a solid national strategy.

Twitter brings security key as your only 2FA method to mobile, web

Twitter has announced that users can use their security keys as only form of two-factor authentication (2FA) on both mobile and web, which is the most effective way to keep the Twitter account secure

Cryptocurrency-related cyberattacks increased by 192%, finds report

This is between October 2020 and May 2021

'Data breach in trading platform has put millions of customers at risk'

The customers' data has been put up for sale on a data sharing platform on June 15 and the incident has been reported to Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) by Technisanct.

Industry growth to largely be led by next-gen technologies, services: Wipro

IT industry's growth will largely be led by next-gen technologies and services with areas like data, cloud and cybersecurity expected to see huge incremental growth, Wipro CEO Theirry Delaporte said

Paying fortifies ransomware gangs but scant support for bans from US govt

If your business falls victim to ransomware and you want simple advice on whether to pay the criminals, don't expect much help from the US government. The answer is apt to be: It depends

MHA running national helpline, reporting platform to fight cyber fraud

The national helpline is 155260

Critical entities targeted in suspected state-backed Chinese cyber spying

A cyberespionage campaign with suspected state-backed hackers exploiting a device meant to boost internet security to penetrate the computers of critical US entities

Data of people is safe with CoWIN, allegations of data leak baseless: Govt

Recently, reports surfaced about a data leak affecting 150 million users registered on the Co-WIN portal had surfaced.

Warding off hackers: Bug bounty hunters working to keep firms cyber secure

Bug bounty hunters are certified cybersecurity professionals or security researchers, who crawl the web, scanning the systems for gaps through which hackers can sneak in and alert the companies

World's biggest meat supplier is latest prey to cybersecurity attack

The attack sidelined two shifts and halted processing at one of Canada's largest meatpacking plants, while in Australia the company canceled all beef and lamb kills across the nation

Microsoft launches the first ever Asia-Pacific cybersecurity council

The aim is to build a strong communications channel for addressing cyber threats and sharing best practices across the participating countries

'They hit you hard': How DarkSide became powerhouse of ransomware attacks

Cybergang's targeting of US pipeline owner casts spotlight on a rapidly expanding criminal industry based primarily in Russia.

Air India servers hacked; passengers' passport, credit card data leaked

Airline has set up a special cell to communicate with impacted customers

Ireland's health department under ransomware attack similar to that on HSE

Ireland's Department of Health has been under a ransomware attack similar to that recently launched on the country's Health Service Executive (HSE), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said

Cyber agency CERT-In asks Indian FB users to enhance account privacy

Country's cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global 'data scraping' incident in the social media platform was detected that affected about 61 lakh Indians. "As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could be public. Data could also be collected and shared in ways you don't know about," the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In said in a public advisory issued on Monday. It is the federal technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guard the Indian cyber space against phishing and hacking assaults and similar online attacks. "It has been reported that globally there has been a large scale leakage of Facebook profile information. The exposed information includes email addresses, profile ID, full name, job occupation, phone numbers and birth date. "According to Facebook, the scraped information does not include financial information, health information or passwords, ..