Cyberattacks triple in last three years in India, but security funds underutilised The number of cyberattacks in the country has witnessed three-fold increase over as many years, however, the funds meant for cybersecurity have been underutilised with only Rs 98.31 crore used of the total Rs 213 crore sanctioned. According to government data, in 2019, total number of cybersecurity incidents ...

AIIMS-Delhi working on cyber security policy with investigating agencies NEW DELHI: The AIIMS, Delhi is working on devising a cyber security policy for the hospital and other wings with guidance from investigating agencies, official sources said on Thursday, even as its servers remained down for the ninth day following a ransomware attack. Recommendations have been sought from the investigating agencies, ...

Cyber attackers briefly hack Jal Shakti Ministry’s Twitter handle   Cyber attackers on Thursday briefly hacked the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s Twitter handle. This is the second major cyber attack on a government site after AIIMS Delhi’s server was majorly hacked last week. Officials said that a preliminary probe has been initiated by concerned agencies into the hacking of the ...

As GST collections swell govt coffers, cyber thugs thrive on new age tax crimes Even as the technology backed new tax system, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, continues to swell the government coffers, the cyber tax crimes have grown leaps and bound. While the GST revenue number for November released by the Union ministry of finance on Thursday ...

1.9M attacks on Indian healthcare network from Pak, China this year: Report   As AIIMS struggles to get its servers back to life after a massive ransomware attack, nearly 1.9 million cyber attacks have been recorded on the Indian healthcare network this year, especially from countries like Pakistan, China and Vietnam, a report revealed on Thursday. The healthcare-based threat intelligence ...

Navigating the cybersecurity skills shortage: Joseph Zhou, Linode By Joseph Zhou Cybersecurity concerns have been making more and more headlines as of late. According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), over 6.74 lakh cyber security incidents were reported in India in the first six months of 2022. From ransomware infections to crypto mining on compromised accounts, most security ...

LastPass claims no data was compromised despite cyber security attack LastPass, the popular password manager app, has recently been hit by a cybersecurity attack. However, the company has ascertained that the information, such as crucial data and customer passwords, is safe. A few months back, the same password-storing app acknowledged that some portion of its essential source code and proprietary ...

Hackers exploited discontinued web server at Tata Power: Microsoft Hive claims responsibility for Tata Power data leak 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 was on Tata Power in October. Microsoft security researchers discovered a vulnerable open-source component in the “Boa ...

Android banking trojan: malware-spreading apps were posing as utility tools to steal user data A new set of dangerous Android apps were successful in bypassing Google’s security to make their way into the Play Store. Experts have warned that these malware-laden apps were masquerading as utility applications and were able to manage over ten thousand total downloads before it was ...

Defenceless in the face of cyber attacks New Delhi: Even as the country’s top cybercrime units grappled with the ransomware attack on AIIMS servers and systems, sources in the security establishment said chances of fully recovering from the damage caused by the malware were bleak and “starting afresh” seemed to be the way out. The best of minds from the ...