Cyber Security

The pro-Russian hacker group called Phoenix allegedly compromised the HMIS Portal and had access to the data of employees and chief physicians of all the hospitals in the country, claimed the AI-driven cybersecurity company. According to CloudSEK's contextual AI digital risk platform XVigil, "the motive behind this target was the sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation where Indian authorities decided not to violate the sanctions as well as comply with the price ceiling for Russian oil approved by G7 countries".

The company denied earlier reports that it was hacked. In a statement to IANS, the company said that "Acronis only currently acknowledges the compromise of a single customer password. We are still investigating the situation", A cyber-threat watcher FalconFeedsio had posted on Twitter the claims by an unspecified hacker that they breached Acronis and stole data.

A cyber-threat watcher FalconFeedsio posted on Twitter the claims by an unspecified hacker that they breached Acronis and stole data. "A user in the hacker's forum claims to have leaked data from a Switzerland cybersecurity company," posted FalconFeedsio. The leaked data includes various certificate files, command logs, system configurations, system information logs.

The National Cybersecurity Strategy stressed on rebalancing the responsibility to defend cyberspace by "shifting the burden for cybersecurity away from individuals, small businesses, and local governments, and onto the organisations that are most capable and best-positioned to reduce risks for all of us". The strategy also singled out China as "the broadest, most active.

About 1,335 breach data incidents were publicly disclosed between November 2021 and October 2022. Of the 1,335 breaches analysed globally, 143 breaches occurred in Asia Pacific and Japan, resulting in a whopping 68 per cent of total records exposed globally, according to the report by Exposure Management Company Tenable.

The cybersecurity personnel are facing acute stress as nation-state bad actors continue to infiltrate government and enterprise systems with sophisticated malware. "Cybersecurity professionals are facing unsustainable levels of stress. CISOs are on the defence, with the only possible outcomes that they don't get hacked or they do," said Deepti Gopal, Director Analyst, Gartner.

According to a TechCrunch report, security researcher Anurag Sen found the exposed server that "was hosted on Microsoft's Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers". The US government was alerted about the exposed government cloud email server that was connected to the Internet without a password.

Businesses, regardless of their size and industry, are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and exploiting vulnerabilities in the systems to their advantage. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and organisations must update their cyber security strategies to better protect their data.

According to TechCrunch, an internal Slick database with full names, mobile numbers, dates of birth, and profile pictures of users was "left exposed online without a password." The internal database contained entries of over 153,000 Slick users. The Bengaluru-based app allows school and college students to connect and talk about their friends anonymously.

In a tweet, Fick said that "My account has been hacked. Perils of the job." It was not clear who was responsible for the hack or if cyber-criminals posted anything derogatory from his personal account. According to a CNN report, US President Joe Biden in June announced to nominate Fick to lead the newly-formed Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.