In a major breakthrough in a cross-border cyber fraud case, Bengaluru police have arrested two men from Hyderabad in connection with a ₹4.75 crore scam that saw an elderly couple manipulated into believing they were under “digital arrest,” Indian Express reported. The fraud came to light when cybercrime officials in Chennai stumbled upon Bengaluru-based victims. […]

Microsoft has released patches to fix 67 security flaws, including one zero-day bug in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WEBDAV) that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 67 vulnerabilities, 11 are rated Critical and 56 are rated Important in severity. This includes 26 remote code execution flaws, 17 information […]

TechCentral and Veeam recently hosted a high-level executive roundtable focused on the critical actions business leaders must take during cybersecurity incidents. The session was moderated by Jaydev Chiba and brought together senior delegates from various sectors including retail, banking, local and provincial government, and online gaming, alongside key Veeam executives. The objective was to foster […]

SINGAPORE: Authorities in Singapore have taken down more than 1,000 internet protocol (IP) addresses based in the country and believed to have been linked to cybercrimes. Officers from the Cybercrime Command under the Criminal Investigation Department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) worked with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) to take down the […]

SINGAPORE – More than 20,000 malicious IP addresses or domains linked to information stealers have been taken down in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation against cybercriminal infrastructure. During Operation Secure (January – April 2025) law enforcement agencies from 26 countries worked to locate servers, map physical networks and execute targeted takedowns. Ahead of the operation, INTERPOL cooperated […]

As part of its ongoing crackdown on cybercrime under the ‘Chakra-V’ operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids at three different locations. The CBI seized crime proceeds in the form of Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs) valued at ₹2.8 crore, along with unaccounted cash worth ₹22 lakh from the suspect’s possession. One individual […]

In cybersecurity, there’s an urge to collect as much data as possible. Logs, alerts, metrics, everything. But more data doesn’t necessarily translate to better security. SOCs deal with tens of thousands of alerts every day. It’s more than any person can realistically keep up with. When too much data comes in at once, things get […]

Yes24 down for third day, triggering ripple effects across entertainment industry Yes24 logo (Yes24) Yes24, the country’s largest online book retailer and a major ticketing platform, remained inaccessible for a third consecutive day Wednesday, following what the company confirmed was a ransomware attack. The outage, which began in the early hours of Monday, brought all […]

Sixty percent of UK public sector IT leaders say a successful cyberattack is “only a matter of time”. That’s according to research from Trend Micro, which surveyed 250 IT public sector leaders with cybersecurity responsibilities. IT leaders view phishing as the most significant threat over the next two years (60 percent), followed by ransomware (41 […]