Category: CYBER SECURITY

According to security researchers from AI-driven cyber-security firm CloudSEK, the data fields being sold on the Dark Web include patient name, guardian name, date of birth, doctor’s details and address information.

As AIIMS struggles to get its servers back to life after a massive ransomware attack, nearly 1.9 million cyber attacks have been recorded on the Indian healthcare network this year, especially from countries like Pakistan, China, and Vietnam, a report revealed on Thursday.

As Elon Musk goes gaga over Twitter 2.0 which will be the ‘Everything App’, at least 5.4 million Twitter user records, stolen via an internal bug, have been leaked online on a hacker forum.

As the FIFA World Cup is currently underway in Qatar, cyber-security researchers on Monday warned that threat actors are selling fake Hayya cards, which is essentially permit document, to fans who are willing to pay any amount to get one.

According to Cybernews, the dataset allegedly contains WhatsApp user data from 84 countries and phone numbers of over 32 million users from the US, 11 million from the UK, and 10 million from Russia.

Threat actors are hosting websites for malicious campaigns centered around the Black Friday theme and e-commerce, cryptocurrency and travel are the top targets, a new report has revealed.

The US authorities have seized call spoofing website iSpoof which stole $120 million from the victims.

The UK government on Friday announced to put people who share so-called ‘deepfakes — explicit images or videos manipulated to look like someone without their consent — behind bars.

Microsoft has warned that state-sponsored hackers are attacking critical energy infrastructure in India via exploiting a discontinued web server, with the most recent attack it observed on Tata Power in October.

Major tax-filing websites such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer in the US are reportedly sending sensitive financial information to Facebook.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges today against 10 defendants in multiple states in connection with multiple business email compromise (BEC), money laundering, and wire fraud schemes that targeted Medicare, state Medicaid programs, private health insurers, and numerous other victims and resulted in more than $11.1 million in total losses.

The US government has warned about an ongoing ransomware activity that has victimized over 1,300 companies worldwide, receiving approximately $100 million in ransom payments.

Google will pay a historic $391.5 million in settlement to 40 states in the US over allegations that the tech giant tracked users’ location data without their consent in the country.

A criminal complaint filed in the District of New Jersey was unsealed today charging a dual Russian and Canadian national for his alleged participation in the LockBit global ransomware campaign.

A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at https://democrats.org with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

The volume of password attacks has risen to an estimated 921 attacks every second globally — a 74 per cent increase in just one year, a Microsoft report has said.

As Twitter announces plans to charge users $8 a month for Twitter Blue and account verification, some users have started receiving phishing emails to steal the passwords of unwitting users.