Fake company offering legal help to scam victims loots more money from them City police on Sunday busted a cybercrime racket in which fraudsters targeted people already cheated online, posing as legal experts offering help, only to scam them all over again. The investigation began after a complaint was filed at Ramamurthy Nagar Police Station...Read More
Kasabji added: “Isolated, versioned, and access-controlled recovery tiers are becoming non-negotiable.” Ransomware gangs have turned the victim’s own cloud-based tools against them. For example, notorious groups such as BlackCat (ALPHV) and Rhysida have actively exploited access to Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration, and backup services such as Azure Storage Explorer to exfiltrate and...Read More
In India, cyber abuse against women has reached deeply concerning levels. Cybercrime complaints in India surged to nearly 20 lakh in 2024, with online abuse against women accounting for a staggering 20 per cent of all cases, placing India third globally in online abuse against women And that’s just the official number. Many survivors avoid reporting...Read More
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( August 5, 2025, 05:36 GMT | Official Statement) — MLex Summary: Malaysia is developing a set of guidelines on artificial intelligence to address the increasingly complex threat of cybercrime, which are expected to be completed between January and March 2026. The guidelines are the Data Protection Impact Assessment Guidelines, which aim to identify and...Read More
Microsoft announced last month that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its SharePoint collaboration software to breach hundreds of companies and government agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. However, the tech giant omitted a crucial detail: China-based engineers have been maintaining the very software that was compromised, as reported...Read More
CW – OT Security Officer SSE | United Kingdom | On-site – View job details As a CW – OT Security Officer, you will lead and prioritise a programme of security audits and assurance to identify vulnerabilities within existing controls. You will monitor and audit supply chain to ensure security requirements are included within contracts...Read More
Threat actors are using a new quadruple extortion tactic in ransomware campaigns, while double extortion remains the most common approach, according to Akamai. Ransomware extortion tactics (Source: Akamai) The emerging trend of quadruple extortion includes using DDoS attacks to disrupt business operations and harassing third parties, like customers, partners, and media, to increase the pressure...Read More
The UK’s Online Safety Act has been greatly anticipated. Amid mounting concerns about the ease of accessing harmful content online, rules were drawn up to force social platforms to protect children from posts and videos that incite hatred or encourage suicide, self-harm or eating disorders. But within days of coming into force, the new approach...Read More
Cyber security firm Rapid7 has released its quarterly look at the ransomware landscape, and the company is describing the second quarter of 2025 as “tumultuous times”. “Rapid7’s internal and publicly-available data analysis reveals a dynamic environment where major players come and go, newer groups work their way up the heavy-hitters ladder, and threat actors jostle...Read More
