A troubling case of cyber fraud in Gujarat has surfaced, where a 72-year-old man was defrauded of Rs 1.47 crore in a sophisticated ‘digital arrest’ scam. The scheme has prompted concerns among law enforcement agencies, shining a light on the advanced tactics employed by cybercriminals to manipulate victims psychologically. The Home Ministry’s cyber security division...Read More
Most media sites love to hate the deep web. They paint it as a shadowy digital underworld awash with nefarious characters that spend their time pedaling drugs, sharing illicit images, and recruiting for terrorist organizations. To an extent, what they say is true; however, there is far more to the deep web than trading firearms...Read More
Gray Swan, an AI security company founded out of Carnegie Mellon University’s AI safety research programme, has raised $40m in a Series A funding round as it moves to bring frontier-grade security to enterprise AI deployments. The round was co-led by Wing Venture Capital and Madrona, with additional backing from Obvious Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Hudson...Read More
Nvidia’s Vera BlueField-4 STX protects AI Agents, context memory and file-based data access directly in silicon. The BlueField-4 STX DPU has DOCA security capabilities to provide zero-trust file access, agent behavior visibility and network-level isolation. DOCA is Nvidia’s Data-Center Infrastructure on a Chip. STX is Nvidia’s KV Cache context memory tiering scheme. BlueField-4 STX enables...Read More
A well-known North Korean threat actor has been caught hiding malware inside a legitimate PHP package available through Packagist, the main package repository for PHP projects. The attack takes direct aim at software developers, disguising a dangerous payload as a routine configuration file. This kind of campaign blends in easily with normal development workflows, making...Read More
An Indian school exam board has admitted flaws in its online grading system’s cybersecurity, which has impacted thousands of pupils and added to a series of challenges facing the education department of the country. The government-run Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in a post on X said it has been “closely monitoring” weaknesses in...Read More
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The head of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union says cuts to the education sector will cause more strain at a time...Read More
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia on Monday began enforcing rules barring millions of children younger than 16 from having social media accounts, joining a global effort to tighten online safety protections for young users. The rules require social media platforms with at least 8 million users including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, to implement age-verification systems...Read More
Microsoft Threat Intelligence detailed a growing RaaS (ransomware-as-a-service) operation known as The Gentlemen, tracked by Microsoft as Storm-2697, warning that the threat combines strong file encryption with aggressive self-propagation capabilities that can compromise entire enterprise networks. The analysis disclosed that the Go-based ransomware uses per-file ephemeral key encryption built on Curve25519 and XChaCha20, while simultaneously...Read More
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency program that warns organizations about imminent ransomware attacks has suffered a major setback after its lead staffer left the agency rather than take a forced reassignment. David Stern, the driving force...Read More
