How to Protect Your Business Cybersecurity threats are getting pretty advanced in 2025. While some hackers are simply guessing weak passwords to gain access to sensitive systems, there are plenty of advanced techniques that employ AI technology that are far harder to recognize than they used to be. However, those advancements aren’t an excuse to […]

Two Delhi Police sub-inspectors (SI), absconding since March after they allegedly siphoned money seized in cybercrime cases, were arrested from Indore last week, police said on Tuesday. Police identified one of the officers as Ankur Malik (32), a resident of UP’s Baghpat who was posted at Northeast district cyber police station. His female associate, whom […]

You’ve heard the phrase, “We don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Well, the UK government seems to have a similar approach in mind for dealing with cybercriminals. Today, the British government announced it will introduce new cybersecurity measures to prohibit public sector and critical national infrastructure organizations from making ransomware payments to cybercriminals. In ransomware attacks, cybercriminals […]

New Delhi: Two sub-inspectors from Delhi Police have been arrested in Indore for allegedly duping cybercrime victims of Rs 75 lakh. The case, reported in April, involved sub-inspector Ankur Malik, who was posted with the cybercrime police station in northeast Delhi, and a woman sub-inspector posted at the Mansarovar Park police station in Shahdara.SI Malik […]

A ransomware attack last week against Cookeville Regional Medical Center remains under investigation. CRMC officials have continued to keep the internet off while the investigation is ongoing, and that is affecting some operations at the hospital while they continue to care for patients. “As soon as we realized something was going on, we shut down […]

At least three Chinese groups are attacking on-premises SharePoint servers via a couple of recently disclosed Microsoft bugs, according to Redmond. Two of the crews behind the zero-day attacks are government-backed: Linen Typhoon (aka Emissary Panda, APT27) and Violet Typhoon (aka Zirconium, Judgment Panda, APT31), Microsoft’s threat intel team wrote in a Tuesday blog. Linen Typhoon […]

Data from sensors that detect threats in critical infrastructure networks is sitting unanalyzed after a government contract expired this weekend, raising risks for operational technology, a program leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory told lawmakers Tuesday. That news arrived at a hearing of a House Homeland Security subcommittee on Stuxnet, the malware that was discovered […]

The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory today warning of the growing threat of Interlock ransomware. The Interlock ransomware variant first appeared in late September 2024, and while the FBI-CISA advisory doesn’t say how many victims the group has claimed, Cyble threat intelligence researchers have documented 50 Interlock […]

I’ve been following ransomware since the first one, the AIDS Cop Trojan, was released in December 1989.

The British government to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ransomware attackers. The proposed legislation would add schools, town councils, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and critical infrastructure managers to a ban which already applies to the national government. The logic behind banning payments is simple. If cybercriminals […]