Cyber Security

Comparing this with the number of threats detected in the period between Jan-March 2021, which was around 3.76 crore (3,76,50,472), there has been a two-fold increase in the number of web-borne threats in the second quarter. "The increase in the number of internet-borne threats targeted at Indian internet users is definitely a cause of serious concern," Dipesh Kaura, General Manager, Kaspersky (South Asia), said in a statement.

According to a Bloomberg report, Joe Biden plans to host a meeting on Wednesday to discuss how companies are improving cybersecurity. "The executives could discuss efforts undertaken by critical infrastructure entities, including those in the banking, energy and water utility sectors, to improve cybersecurity and collaborations with the government," the report said on Tuesday.

The new company, yet to be renamed, will serve more than 500 million users, including 40 million direct customers. "This transaction is a huge step forward for consumer Cyber Safety and will ultimately enable us to achieve our vision to protect and empower people to live their digital lives safely," said Vincent Pilette, Chief Executive Officer of NortonLifeLock.

Avast's latest Global PC Risk Report also looked into the possibility of users facing aadvanced' threats -- defined as more sophisticated or threats never seen before, designed to bypass common protection technologies included in security software, such as signatures, heuristics, emulators, URL filtering, and email scanning.

In collaboration with experts from Virginia Tech, the University of Queensland and Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory devised a technique called ‘DESOLATOR' to help optimise a well-known cybersecurity strategy known as the moving target defense. "The idea is that it's hard to hit a moving target," said Dr Terrence Moore, a US Army mathematician.

In a statement to Motherboard, an AWS spokesperson said that "When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts". Reports have surfaced on military-grade Pegasus spyware from Israeli firm NSO Group being used by governments around the world to snoop on more than 50,000 people in 50 countries including in India.