Judiciary will have to live with instances like ‘hacking’ with robust ICT system: CJI

Judiciary will have to live with instances like ‘hacking’ with robust ICT system: CJI

Stating that recent ‘hacking’ into High Court of Karnataka’s videoconference system has perturbed everyone in the legal fraternity, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said here on Saturday that the judiciary will have to live with such instances and cannot stop the use of technology. “We have to make our Information and Communication Technology (ICT) … Read more

Russian hacker group Phoenix targets health ministry systems – ET HealthWorld

Russian hacker group Phoenix targets health ministry systems – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Cybersecurity company CloudSEK’s AI digital-risk platform XVigil on Wednesday detected a Russian-origin threat-actor group that claimed to have targeted the Indian health ministry’s health-management information system. Access to the personnel directory and chief physicians of every Indian hospital is likely to have been jeopardised. This raises the prospect of exfiltration of licence documents … Read more

After cyberattack on AIIMS, ICMR website faces 6,000 hacking attempts in 24 hours – ET HealthWorld

After cyberattack on AIIMS, ICMR website faces 6,000 hacking attempts in 24 hours – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The website of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) faced around 6,000 hacking attempts over a span of 24 hours on November 30, about a week after online services of AIIMS-Delhi were crippled by a ransomware attack. A government official said hacking attempts on ICMR’s website were allegedly made from IPs originating … Read more

Yusuf Kurniawan: Navigating a Cyber Security Management Program

Yusuf Kurniawan: Navigating a Cyber Security Management Program

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Ransomware persists even as high-profile attacks have slowed

Ransomware persists even as high-profile attacks have slowed

In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfort to Ken Trzaska. Trzaska is president of Lewis & Clark Community College, … Read more

US justice department charges four Chinese nationals in Microsoft Exchange hack – live

US justice department charges four Chinese nationals in Microsoft Exchange hack – live

4.00pm BST16:00 Joe Biden is set to speak on the economy and the bipartisan infrastructure plan at 11.30 local time. CNN is reporting that the president will use this speech to counter concerns that his economic plan will accelerate inflation. The speech comes with the bipartisan group working on the bipartisan infrastructure plan at odds … Read more

FBI chief likens ransomware threat to 9/11 as Biden plans to confront Putin at G7 – live

FBI chief likens ransomware threat to 9/11 as Biden plans to confront Putin at G7 – live

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many of which trace back to hackers in Russia, and compared the current spate of cyberattacks with the challenge posed by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “There are a lot of parallels, there’s a lot of importance, and a … Read more

Microsoft users may have suffered China-linked hack

Microsoft users may have suffered China-linked hack

Businesses and government agencies in the US that use a Microsoft email service have been compromised in an aggressive hacking campaign that was probably sponsored by the Chinese government, Microsoft said. The number of victims is estimated to be in the tens of thousands and could rise, some security experts believe, as the investigation into … Read more

U.S. Charges Six Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking

U.S. Charges Six Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking

WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against six Russian intelligence officers accused of engaging in some of the most destructive cyberattacks of recent years, including operations that knocked out Ukraine’s energy grid, exposed emails from the French president’s party and damaged global systems in the costly 2017 NotPetya attack. The prolific hacking unit within Russia’s military intelligence … Read more

Account takeovers and password hackings: Facebook financial frauds rise in the midst of pandemic

Account takeovers and password hackings: Facebook financial frauds rise in the midst of pandemic

New Delhi | Mumbai: Bittu Mishra spent a week at a Coimbatore ashram for a meditation course. As she left, she started getting messages from her close relatives, asking about her well being. Five of her relatives and friends said they had transferred money to her account. Since she wasn’t allowed to use the mobile … Read more