[ad_1] Dehradun: Cybercrime officials on Monday cautioned residents against a rising cash on delivery scam after two Dehradun residents recently fell victim to a new online fraud in which scammers send ‘cash on delivery’ (COD) parcels filled with worthless items but charge several hundred rupees for them. In both cases, delivery agents arrived at the...Read More
[ad_1] Data I/O, an electronics manufacturer and software vendor for major automotive suppliers and tech firms, said its operations were disrupted in the wake of a ransomware attack earlier this month. The attack occurred Aug. 16, the company said in a regulatory filing Thursday. “The incident has temporarily impacted the company’s operations including internal and...Read More
[ad_1] This newsletter is brought to you by Okta. You can subscribe to an audio version of this newsletter as a podcast by searching for “Risky Business” in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed. For the second time this year, an Iranian hacktivist group has crippled the satellite communications systems on 64 Iranian...Read More
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The number of ransomware attacks that were observed and tracked during the first six months of 2025 was up by 179% – almost three times – on the same period in 2024, according to statistics published by threat intelligence platform provider Flashpoint. The past year has seen significant turnover among cyber criminal threat...Read More
[ad_1] Mira Road: In a bid to reach out to large masses during the festive season, the Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar (MBVV) Police will launch a special awareness campaign during Ganeshotsav 2025. Under the initiative, officers from Zone I will visit Ganesh mandals across the city to conduct informative sessions on cybercrimes, women’s safety, and the menace of...Read More
[ad_1] A sophisticated credential-harvesting campaign has been targeting ScreenConnect cloud administrators for years and may be opening the door to ransomware attacks, researchers at Mimecast said in a blog post released Monday. The campaign uses compromised Amazon Simple Email Service accounts to spear-phish senior IT administrators who have elevated privileges in ScreenConnect environments. The hackers...Read More
[ad_1] Kilmar Abrego Garcia , second right, leaves the Putnam County Jail. (AP Photo) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland construction worker at the center of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, surrendered to US authorities in Baltimore on Monday. His case, already marked by a wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, has taken...Read More
[ad_1] Michael McLaren has called out the state and federal governments, calling them “woefully inept” for failing to implement recommendations from multiple inquiries into child safety. He argues that this political “intransigence” has directly led to a system where vulnerable children are being abused. Listen to more highlights from Afternoons below: Image: iStock ! function(f,...Read More
[ad_1] By Gautam Debroy New Delhi: Data compiled by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has revealed that Southeast Asia has emerged as a hotspot for new illicit service ecosystems offering phishing kits, ransomware variants, deepfake technologies and even “money laundering as a service” to transnational criminal networks. “The increasing use of cryptocurrencies to facilitate...Read More
