Tag: Cyber Attack

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High-Profile Twitter Hacking Scandal Craftily Done By 4 Young Hackers: Report

San Francisco: The worst cyber attack in the history of social media in which over 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised using internal company tools this week is not the handiwork of nation-state bad actors but the brainchild of four young hackers, the media reported. The New York Times reported on Friday that the Twitter […]

  • Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Google Stops Biggest-Ever DDoS Cyber Attack
Google Stops Biggest-Ever DDoS Cyber Attack

New Delhi: The cyber security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) are growing exponentially, disrupting businesses of all sizes globally, leading to outages and loss of user trust, Google has said. The tech giant revealed that its infrastructure absorbed a massive 2.5Tbps DDoS in September 2017, the highest-bandwidth attack reported to date which was the […]

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
Microsoft
Hackers Attack 100 Influential People To Collect Intelligence, Reveals Microsoft

New Delhi: Microsoft has detected and worked to stop a series of cyber-attacks from hackers masquerading as conference organisers to target more than 100 high-profile individuals, including former ambassadors and other senior policy experts, for intelligence collection purposes. Phosphorus, an Iranian threat actor, targeted potential attendees of the upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
Dragon Targets Telecom To Breach Security, Firewall Ready In 6 Months
Dragon Targets Telecom To Breach Security, Firewall Ready In 6 Months

New Delhi: In a bid to counter cyber-attacks and data theft, primarily perpetrated from China, the government seems determined to implement the new security directives in the telecom sector, cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), within the next six months. Underlining the need of such directive, a confidential report of National Security Council […]

  • Tuesday, 06 April 2021
Chinese Attack
Microsoft Warns Customers Against New China Cyber Attack

New Delhi: Microsoft has warned its customers against a new sophisticated nation-state cyber attack that has its origin in China and is primarily targeting on-premises ‘Exchange Server’ software of the tech giant. Called “Hafnium,” it operates from China and is attacking infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defence contractors, policy think tanks and […]

  • Sunday, 04 April 2021
Farmer Protest
Hackers Hit Indians With Ransomware Supporting Farmers

New Delhi: In a unique way to support protesting farmers in India, cyber criminals have launched a new ransomware attack in the country that does not ask for money but justice for the community, conveying a message that no data will be recovered until the demands of the farmers are met, a new report revealed […]

  • Sunday, 04 April 2021
52% Of Indian Firms Report Cyber Attack In Last 12 Months
52% Of Indian Firms Report Cyber Attack In Last 12 Months

Mumbai: About 52 per cent of Indian organisations said they fell victim to a successful cybersecurity attack in the last 12 months, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Of these successful breaches, 71 per cent of organisations admitted it was a serious or very serious attack, and 65 per cent said it took longer […]

  • Thursday, 01 April 2021
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