Cyberattack News

You would be surprised to know that the overall crime rate in the state of Hyderabad has increased by 4.4% and this rise is mainly because of the 57 percent increase in cybercrime. That's right. In India in 2021, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and Karnataka collectively accounted for half of all cybercrime cases. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences experienced a weeks-long interruption in critical services in November as a result of hackers invading its systems. Millions of patient records had their data hacked. Scary, isn’t it?

The hackers appear to have targeted Kaseya Ltd., a Miami-based developer of software for managed service providers, as a way to attack its customers

Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years, with 52% of incidents between July 2019 and June 2020 related to Russian hackers -- whose targets have ranged from elections to the Olympics, according to a report

Regulators from the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) were in close contact with NZXDistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks involve disrupting computer networks by flooding them with traffic

Kaspersky experts believe that the rise in DDoS attacks can be attributed to the covid-19 pandemic affecting countries worldwide. Cybercriminals find it easier to target home networks instead of taking on enterprise networks

Russia's Foreign Ministry said it would respond with reciprocal measures to European Union travel and financial sanctions against a department of Russia's military intelligence service for alleged cyberattacks

Organizations are adopting digital transformation and tech tools for their internal functionsThe impact of cybersecurity attacks and data breaches is severe, not just monetarily but in terms of loss of brand reputation, goodwill, and customers as well

The hackers targeted Twitter employees to gain access to its internal tools, which is unlike usual cyberattacks that tend to exploit vulnerabilities in a platform’s code

55% of organisations reported data breach in which the cloud provider's account credentials were stolen and 44% found that attacks were caused by misconfigurations in open ports

Exercise caution when opening email attachments even if the attachment is expected and the sender appears to be known.Don't open attachments in unsolicited emails, even if they come from people in your contact list.