Category: CYBER SECURITY

The UK government on Friday announced to put people who share so-called 'deepfakes -- explicit images or videos manipulated to look like someone without their consent -- behind bars.

Microsoft has warned that state-sponsored hackers are attacking critical energy infrastructure in India via exploiting a discontinued web server, with the most recent attack it observed on Tata Power in October.

Major tax-filing websites such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer in the US are reportedly sending sensitive financial information to Facebook.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges today against 10 defendants in multiple states in connection with multiple business email compromise (BEC), money laundering, and wire fraud schemes that targeted Medicare, state Medicaid programs, private health insurers, and numerous other victims and resulted in more...

The US government has warned about an ongoing ransomware activity that has victimized over 1,300 companies worldwide, receiving approximately $100 million in ransom payments.

Google will pay a historic $391.5 million in settlement to 40 states in the US over allegations that the tech giant tracked users' location data without their consent in the country.

A criminal complaint filed in the District of New Jersey was unsealed today charging a dual Russian and Canadian national for his alleged participation in the LockBit global ransomware campaign.

A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at https://democrats.org with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.

The volume of password attacks has risen to an estimated 921 attacks every second globally -- a 74 per cent increase in just one year, a Microsoft report has said.

As Twitter announces plans to charge users $8 a month for Twitter Blue and account verification, some users have started receiving phishing emails to steal the passwords of unwitting users.

TikTok is spelling out to its European users of the platform that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the site, according to a media report.

Cyber-security researchers on Tuesday said that threat actor using fake Twitter accounts are impersonating banking entities to steal victims' personal and payment information via Zoho Forms, a free online form builder from Zoho Corporation.

A database containing viewing habits of Amazon Prime Video users, stored on an internal Amazon server, was accidentally exposed online that could be accessed by anyone with a web browser.

According to the Global State of Scams 2022 Report by the Global Anti Scam Alliance (GASA) and ScamAdviser amongst 48 countries, the scams reported increased by 10.2%, from 266 in 2020 to 293 million reports in 2021. The money lost in scams grew by 15,7%,...