Future City police commissioner Tarun Joshi and Joint Commissioner (Admin and Traffic) Deepthi Chandana during the meeting. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Future City Police Commissioner Tarun Joshi on Wednesday (June 3) directed officers to prioritise cybercrime prevention, road safety, anti-narcotics enforcement and monsoon preparedness as part of a comprehensive policing strategy aimed at strengthening...Read More
Q1 2026 direct ransomware attacks on financial institutions spiked 76% year-over-year, while 50% of financial vendor ecosystems carry critical vulnerabilities BOSTON, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk management, today released its newest report, 2026 State of Financial Services: The Dual Storm of Ransomware and Vendor Ecosystem Risk, which explores...Read More
Wearable health-tech startup Ultrahuman said hackers gained unauthorized access to customers’ wellness data after stealing an employee’s credentials through malware. On Wednesday, the India-based startup informed affected customers of the incident via email, stating that the breach occurred on March 27 and involved a system used for internal analytics. The company said it detected the...Read More
In cybersecurity, few words trigger more dread than ‘wormable’—a vulnerability that could be weaponized into a self-spreading worm. Now researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated something worse: an AI-driven worm that can’t be stopped by patching a single flaw, because it uses reasoning to detect and exploit different vulnerabilities as it spreads. In...Read More
cyber-crime You don’t infect anyone in Russia or other CIS countries Even ransomware cartels make mistakes, and in this case, it was a biggie that could have landed the responsible crim in a Russian gulag: accidentally infecting a company located in a Commonwealth of Independent States country. In what threat-hunter Dominic Alvieri deemed the ransom...Read More
The widespread hacking campaign that relied on simply asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after the company said the issue had been resolved. Meanwhile, the company has been scrambling to secure the targeted accounts and alert victims. Over the weekend, hackers claimed to be exploiting...Read More
After scrapping an initial order anticipated last month, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a much-anticipated executive order addressing cybersecurity concerns related to frontier artificial intelligence development 2 June. The signed executive order virtually mirrors the initially anticipated order, with one significant exception. It reduces the timeframe for AI developers to voluntarily submit their models for...Read More
Who? The ShinyHunters criminal hacker group’s name is believed to be derived from the rare Shiny Pokémon video game character. The character is an aspect of the Pokémon video game franchise where Pokémon appear in an alternate color scheme and produce a special sparkle animation when entering battle. Players who try to collect the scarce...Read More
Arete’s Q1 2026 Crimeware Report Leveraging data and intelligence from the frontlines of ransomware and extortion response, the report highlights trends and shifts in the cyber threat landscape As AI becomes increasingly integrated into technology and business, it is also playing an expanding role in the cyber threat landscape as threat actors leverage AI tools.”...Read More
5 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 3, 2026 06:26 PM IST Hackers tricked Meta’s own AI-powered support chatbot into handing over access to Instagram accounts, by simply prompting the bot to change account recovery details while using VPN to hide their location. The incident underscores the risks of giving AI systems authority over sensitive security functions...Read More
