Coimbatore: Awareness campaigns by police to sensitize the public about cybercrimes do not seem to have yielded desirable results, with an increasing number of city residents falling prey to cyber fraudsters every other day.As per the data available with the city cybercrime police, city folk have lost Rs23.91 crore to online scamsters from January 2025...Read More
Threat actors have been distributing trojanized versions of the KeePass password manager for at least eight months to install Cobalt Strike beacons, steal credentials, and ultimately, deploy ransomware on the breached network. WithSecure’s Threat Intelligence team discovered the campaign after they were brought in to investigate a ransomware attack. The researchers found that the attack...Read More
A cyber attack on the UK’s legal aid systems in April was able to extract a “large amount of information” relating to applicants including criminal records. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) believes the group accessed and downloaded a significant amount of personal data from those who have applied for legal aid through the government’s digital...Read More
In recent years, states have increasingly moved to formalize their cybersecurity strategies through legislation — often creating dedicated cyber forces to tackle digital threats. One example is Texas House Bill 150, which if enacted would establish the Texas Cyber Command to lead and oversee the state’s response to cyber incidents. Several other states — including...Read More
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is asking its IT suppliers to commit to better cybersecurity by signing a public charter. In a May 15 open letter to suppliers, top UK and NHS cyber officials urged suppliers to sign the NHS charter and pledge to adopt cybersecurity best practices that could help address a wave...Read More
NEW DELHI, MAY 19: In a major step towards realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a ‘Cyber Secure Bharat,’ Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah announced the launch of the e-Zero FIR system, aimed at enabling faster crackdown on cybercriminals and swift recovery for victims of cyber financial fraud.The new initiative,...Read More
Business Systems House was breached in September It is a business partner of ADP, which serviced Broadcom at one point Now, sensitive Broadcom files seem to have emerged on the dark web Customers of the global semiconductor giant Broadcom have had their sensitive data leaked on the dark web after a two-step supply chain attack....Read More
Vadodara: In an instance of a criminal duping a crook, a cybercriminal broke into the house of a bootlegger in the city and claimed it as his own. Mahendra Meghwal, the alleged cybercriminal, was arrested on Sunday. He knew that the bootlegger was in jail and wouldn’t return. He showed the house as his own...Read More
Berkeley Research Group LLC, the financial adviser for creditor committees in multiple religious order bankruptcies, was sued after admitting it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Those creditor committees often included sexual assault victims, like the plaintiff bringing a proposed class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. He...Read More
SRINAGAR: The Cybercrime Coordination Centre of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday introduced the new e-Zero FIR initiative to nab any criminal with unprecedented speed. After launching the pilot project, Union Home Minister Amit Shah wrote on X, “The MHA’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) introduced the new e-Zero...Read More