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China leads in hosting DDoS cyber attack weapons: Report
The number of total botnet agents was almost halved in the first half of 2021, with China hosting 44 per cent of the total number of drones available worldwide, according to the report by US-based tech firm A10 Networks.
Hosting platform blocked user behind Bulli Bai app: Union Minister
"Bulli Bai", created on Github, popped up on January 1, with a number of pictures of women including journalists, social workers, students and famous personalities, accompanied by derogatory content.
Reliance Jio warns customers against doing these 6 things | Here're details
Amid rising cases of cyber frauds, scamming, the telecommunications company has warned its customers about the technique that fraudsters use to fool innocent users. Earlier in 2021, CEO's of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone had also issued a similar warning against cyber frauds to their customers. In a letter to its customers, Reliance Jio has mentioned following 6 things that they need to be careful about.
5 trends that will shape cybersecurity threat landscape in 2022
According to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), around 12.1 lakh cybersecurity incidents were observed till October 2021 in India. Microsoft analyzes over 8.3 trillion signals each day for potential malicious activity in email, desktops, laptops, and cloud applications that people log into for work and personal life. Here are five cybersecurity paradigm shifts shared by Microsoft Security for 2022:
Unregulated crypto fueling ransomware attacks globally: Report
Cryptocurrency will continue to fuel cybercrimes such as ransomware and malicious cryptomining, and the trend will continue until global cryptocurrencies are better regulated, according to researchers from global cyber security firm Sophos. Over the coming year, the ransomware landscape will become both more modular and uniform, with attack "specialists" offering different elements of an attack "as-a-service" and providing playbooks with tools and techniques that enable different adversary groups to implement very similar attacks.
88% of board of directors find cybersecurity as business risk
Even as business leaders are aware of the need to secure the enterprise against new and evolving threats, responsibility for security mostly lies with IT leadership, says global market research firm Gartner. Gartner found that in 85 per cent of organisations, the CIO, CISO or their equivalent was the top person held accountable for cybersecurity and just 10 per cent of organisations held non-IT senior managers accountable.
Cyber security collaboration significant in ties with India
Participating in a session on 'Cyber Security and Related Research Applications' at the 'Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021', on its second day, he mentioned that the Government of Taiwan, like that of India, has started various initiatives to revive the economy post-Covid, for which developments in science and technology are essential.
New malware 'SharkBot' attacking banking apps on Android phones
"The main goal of SharkBot is to initiate money transfers from the compromised devices via Automatic Transfer Systems (ATS) technique bypassing multi-factor authentication mechanisms," the researchers from cyber security firm Cleafy said in a statement.
77% Indian organisations faced downtime due to cyber risk during festive season
According to McAfee Enterprise and FireEye's report titled 'Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of Covid-19', the top three most threatening cyber risks that were detected are malware attacks (47 per cent), data breaches (43 per cent), ransomware and cloud jacking (33 per cent each), over 30 per cent of the IT professionals also experienced vulnerabilities in their 'Internet of Things' devices.
4 in 5 firms say staying ahead of hackers 'a constant battle'
More than half (55 per cent) of large companies globally are not effectively stopping cyber-attacks, finding and fixing breaches quickly, or reducing the impact of breaches, according to research from global professional services company Accenture. "Our analysis reveals that organisations too often focus solely on business outcomes at the expense of cybersecurity, creating greater risk. While getting the balance right isn't easy, those who have a clear view of the threat landscape and a strong alignment on business priorities and outcomes achieve greater levels of cyber resilience," Kelly Bissell, who leads Accenture Security globally, said.
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