Nagpur: As topics like cyber security and cyber attack take centre stage, Maharashtra govt will send a delegation to an international cyber security event which begins from Sunday (May 11).Minister of information technology, Ashish Shelar, will lead a govt delegation to the IoT Solution World Congress and Barcelona Cyber Security Congress 2025. Principal secretary (IT)...Read More
The United Nations Convention on Cybercrime, even before negotiations began, raised significant alarm within the global human rights community. These concerns escalated further when, on August 8th, UN Member States unanimously adopted the convention, following unsuccessful last-minute efforts to remove central human rights protections. The Convention defines a series of specific crimes, including attacks on...Read More
Amid the ongoing Indo-Pakistan tensions, cyber criminals in NCR are having a field day trying to fool people by asking them to make donations for Army and Kashmir and also stealing data from the victims’ mobile phones. The cops of Haryana, Rajasthan and UP have issued alerts against phishing links, social media messages seeking donations...Read More
Ethereum’s latest network upgrade, Pectra, introduced powerful new features aimed at improving scalability and smart account functionality — but it also opened a dangerous new attack vector that could allow hackers to drain funds from user wallets using only an offchain signature. Under the Pectra upgrade, which went live on May 7 at epoch 364032,...Read More
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Market ➤ Global Virtual Private Network (VPN) Market to Surpass $149 Billion by 2030, Driven by Remote Work and Cybersecurity Concerns The global Virtual Private Network (VPN) market is experiencing unprecedented growth, projected to expand from USD 48.70 billion in 2023 to nearly USD 149.72 billion by 2030, registering a robust...Read More
KELA, a leading provider of cyber threat and exposure intelligence solutions, has released a new report, Inside the Infostealer Epidemic: Exposing the Risks to Corporate Security. It highlights the critical role of infostealer malware in fueling credential theft and enabling ransomware attacks. The report looks to shed light on the evolving cybercriminal ecosystem – revealing...Read More
A ransomware gang is channeling Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency by taunting victims with ransom notes that demand to know what they’ve “accomplished for work” in the last week. The FOG ransomware group has been distributing the DOGE-themed notes in recent weeks, according to malware samples that cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro discovered on the...Read More
An important but often overshadowed technology issue for government CIOs and CISOs is legacy system modernization. Indeed, the topic comes in at No. 5 on the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) priority list for 2025. No doubt, cyber and AI (along with budgets for everything) are clearly near the top of current...Read More
Ransomware attackers can now watch what you are doing. getty The ransomware threat is evolving, and attackers are continually seeking new angles and technologies to exploit, to aid with leveraging payments in these modern-day extortion schemes. Some are hard to fathom, like the DOGE-trolling hackers demanding $1 trillion, exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, and the...Read More
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Cybercriminals demanded ransom payments from school districts nationwide this week, using millions of K-12 students’ sensitive data as leverage after the files were stolen from education technology giant PowerSchool in a massive cyberattack late last year. The hackers’ new demands...Read More
