California-based cybersecurity firm Proofpoint has announced that it will be offering its platform via a local data centre in India. The initial offerings will start in the third quarter of 2025. Additionally, Proofpoint’s new Centre of Excellence is employing over 200 extended team members for product development, customer support, and technical services. Mounting cyber attacks...Read More
In an era where digital transformation is both a catalyst for progress and a vulnerability to exploitation, the evolution of ransomware has outpaced traditional defensive strategies. The emergence of quadruple extortion tactics—combining data encryption, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and the coercion of third parties—has forced organizations to rethink their cybersecurity paradigms. Meanwhile, cybercriminals are increasingly...Read More
The new Chaos RaaS group is emerging as a dangerous player in the ransomware landscape. Cisco Talos Incident Response investigated several attacks by this new group. Chaos carries out so-called big-game hunting and double extortion attacks. Victims are not only held hostage through data encryption. The attackers also threaten to disclose the data. The attack...Read More
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, addressing concerns in the state assembly on July 28, announced that all cybercrime cases—including cyber fraud—can now be registered at any police station in Goa. The move aims to ease the reporting process for victims, many of whom previously had to travel to the Cyber Cell headquarters in Ribandar to...Read More
Key Findings: Ransomware attacks blocked by the Zscaler cloud rose 146%, the sharpest spike observed in the past three years. Public extortion cases jumped by 70% based on data leak site analysis. Data exfiltration volumes increased 92%. Manufacturing, Technology, and Healthcare were the top targeted industries, and the Oil & Gas sector experienced a 935%...Read More
Rosemary Grogan thought she was going crazy. When the Lehigh County resident, 82, logged in online to her bank earlier this year, she noticed that $50,000 had vanished. She didn’t even know how someone accessed her account. The financial loss was staggering, but then came the fear of judgment from others. “I wasn’t sure that...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — A high-tech safety solution could transform the way schools respond to threats via drones assisting first responders. Leon County Schools may pilot a new drone-based safety system called Campus Guardian Angel. The program aims to enhance school safety by providing immediate situational awareness during threats. Watch the video below to find...Read More
A border patrol agent will be crossing state lines to face charges in New Jersey after getting nabbed in an undercover child predator investigation. Harry Marvelle Peless III, 51, of Newport, Michigan, is being prosecuted in New Jersey and in federal court after communicating with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Accused predator on...Read More
Instead of encryption, ransomware deployment is increasingly relying on extortion, according to a new report from Zscaler ThreatLabz. Ten prominent groups stole twice as much data in the past year as they did previously, threatening victims with publishing the information or selling it on. The number of attack attempts also increased by a staggering 146...Read More
The cybercrime underground is seeing a dramatic shift in Android malware operations, driven by the rise of new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms such as PhantomOS and Nebula. What once required substantial technical skill and infrastructure can now be rented as a plug-and-play toolkit for a few hundred dollars per month, marking a pivotal transformation similar to...Read More
