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The cases that are often registered include phishing, online fraud, cheating, stalking on social media, email abuse, hacking and copyright violations.

Phishing attacks more than doubled in 2018 to reach almost 500 million

Phishing is one of the most flexible types of social engineering' attack, as it can be disguised in many ways.

15 March 2019 5:31 PM IST

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

Number of users attacked by banking Trojans grew by 16% in 2018...

Of 889,452 attacked users, almost 25% were corporate ones, a figure that has remained fairly consistent for the last...

12 March 2019 12:50 PM IST

Symantec is the first and currently the only vendor to offer a complete and integrated email security solution with threat isolation technology for enterprise email, which protects customers from the kind of sophisticated email attacks that are so prevalent in the cloud generation. (Photo: Pixabay)

Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guests' personal data

Compromised personal information includes full names, email addresses, credit card details and passport numbers of...

11 April 2019 1:15 PM IST

While the Dirty Secret of Network Firewalls survey indicated that 30% IT managers think their organizations current defenses are not sufficient to block cyberthreats they have seen in the past year.

Hyderabad man sexually harassed girl online for rejecting proposal,...

The woman had recently blocked him on WhatsApp for sending 'unscrupulous messages'.

26 May 2019 2:06 PM IST

The year, 2017, witnessed a variety of cybercrime spanning from malware attacks to data breaches Equifax, Deloitte and Verizon being the most notable firms to face breaches while Maersk, Merck, and FedEx were victims of ransomware.

Top cybercriminal money laundering service taken offline

Crypto currency laundering service, bestmixer.io, taken down by law enforcement.

23 May 2019 3:11 PM IST

The cases that are often registered include phishing, online fraud, cheating, stalking on social media, email abuse, hacking and copyright violations.

Lawmakers seek probe on US hacking services sold globally

National security experts have grown increasingly concerned about the proliferation of US hacking tools and technology.

16 May 2019 9:37 AM IST

The year, 2017, witnessed a variety of cybercrime spanning from malware attacks to data breaches Equifax, Deloitte and Verizon being the most notable firms to face breaches while Maersk, Merck, and FedEx were victims of ransomware.

Hackers demand 6 Bitcoins ransom for Telangana, AP power websites...

Previous history of ransomware attacks proved they originated from Central Europe and some African nations and so far no...

3 May 2019 12:16 PM IST

Fears of battery drain make Apple ban cryptocurrency mining.

Cryptocurrency thefts, fraud hit USD 1.2 billion in first quarter

The value of losses from crime in the digital currency sector in 2018 hit USD 1.7 billion.

1 May 2019 1:20 PM IST

The year, 2017, witnessed a variety of cybercrime spanning from malware attacks to data breaches Equifax, Deloitte and Verizon being the most notable firms to face breaches while Maersk, Merck, and FedEx were victims of ransomware.

Indian manufacturing industry at high cyber security risk

The sector accounted for more than 27 per cent of the threats detected by Seqrite between January and March 2019.

29 Jun 2019 6:04 PM IST

This cooperation strengthens the existing relationship between the two organizations, ensuring information and technology sharing can support INTERPOL in cybercrime-related investigations.

Kaspersky reinforce collaboration with INTERPOL in the fight against...

This is the second agreement between the two parties following the first signed in 2014.

3 July 2019 6:16 PM IST

Cyber security firm Kasperskys researchers have finally released their annual security bulletin titled Story of the Year 2019.

Scammers exploit new data-leak-compensation' scheme

Kaspersky experts have identified a brand-new scheme that exploits these issues around privacy.

20 Jan 2020 12:58 PM IST

This collaborative analysis suggested an evolution of IoT botnets, from a nearly exclusive use case of launching DDoS attacks to more sophisticated activities such as ransomware distribution and crypto-mining. (Photo: Pixabay)

DDoS attacks almost double in Q4 2019 compared to previous year

Further investigation of botnet activity reveals that around 28 per cent of attacks happened on weekends.

24 Feb 2020 6:46 AM IST