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  Cyber crooks attack Indian armed forces

  India | December 07, 2019 16:34 IST

  After the Armed Forces were attacked by cyber crooks on Friday late night , the tri-services cyber wings issued emergency warning to all the defence personnel not to access mail titled -- 'Notice' -- with attachments, sources said on Saturday.

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  Europol cyberattack cripples IS on social media

  World | November 26, 2019 9:18 IST

  More than 26,000 articles containing jihadist content were identified on various platforms, including social media accounts, links and a large number of communication channels, the Efe news reported.

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  Chinese group behind cyberattacks on India identified

  World | November 05, 2019 14:52 IST

  In one of the attacks the group used PlugX malware - traditionally used by many Chinese APT groups. They also used Byeby trojan, which was involved in the SongXY malware campaign in 2017.

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  Australian hospitals hit with major cyber attack

  World | October 01, 2019 9:42 IST

  Targeting the Gippsland Health Alliance and the South West Alliance of Rural Health, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet said in a statement: "The cyber incident, which was uncovered on Monday, has blocked access to several systems by the infiltration of ransomware, including financial management."

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  India ranks 6th for highest cyber attacks on pharma firms

  India | September 15, 2019 23:06 IST

  In his own research, Denis Makrushin, Security Architect at Ingram Micro, revealed the risks that come along with the steady migration of hospitals from paper-based data storage to electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

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  25 websites of Central Ministries, state governments hacked between Jan-May 2019: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  India | July 11, 2019 16:15 IST

  "As per the information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a total number of 199, 172, 110 and 25 websites of Central Ministries/Departments and State Governments were hacked during the year 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (till May), respectively," Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.

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  US cyber forces launch strike against Iranian military computer systems

  World | June 23, 2019 22:53 IST

  The cyber attacks — a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions — disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said. Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month.

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  US reportedly launches covert cyberattack against Iran

  World | June 23, 2019 13:29 IST

  The cyberattack, which were approved by US President Donald Trump on Thursday, targeted computer systems used to control missile and rocket launches that were chosen months ago for potential disruption, a US official familiar with the matter said on Saturday. 

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  President Donald Trump declares national emergency over cyber threats

  Technology | May 16, 2019 13:56 IST

  President Trump declares national emergency in the US to protect the communications network from "foreign adversaries".

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  Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram still not working for some users, company denies cyber attack

  Technology | March 14, 2019 12:34 IST

  Followed with global outrage on facebook, the company went on to confirm that the problem was not related to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack.

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  Ten worst password combinations you should never keep

  Technology | February 26, 2019 20:10 IST

  There are times when one uses the same password on other accounts as well, which makes it easier for hackers to gain access, following are the worst 10 passwords of all time that you shouldn't use.

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  Massive Marriott data breach traced to Chinese hackers

  World | December 12, 2018 18:31 IST

  The cyber attack on the Marriott hotel chain that collected personal details of some 500 million guests was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort.

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  India witnesses over 4.36 lakh cyberattacks from Russia, US, others in Jan-Jun: F-Secure

  India | November 11, 2018 18:37 IST

  These "honeypots" are basically decoy servers that emulate the IT environment of a business. To the attackers, these look like actual servers of real companies with weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

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  Data of almost all Pakistani banks 'hacked' in massive cyber security breach: Report

  World | November 06, 2018 22:50 IST

  Data of over 8,000 account holders of about 10 Pakistani banks was sold in a market of hackers, reports said. 

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  India ranked 12th worldwide in web-borne threats, says Kaspersky Lab report

  Internet | November 04, 2018 11:39 IST

  It stated that over 32.8 per cent of the users were attacked by web-borne threats in the the third quarter (July-September) in India.  

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  Most firms claim to be well-equipped to deal with rising cyber attacks: Survey

  Business | October 21, 2018 12:20 IST

  The research further said with attacks expected to increase in volume and bigger penalties expected from regulators, breach risk is more important than ever before.

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  Mumbai: Rs 143 crore swiped off State Bank of Mauritius branch in cyber fraud

  India | October 12, 2018 18:14 IST

  This is the second major cyber attack on a bank in Maharashtra in the past couple of months.

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  US: Three people including Indian-origin man sentenced, fined USD 127,000 for cyberattack

  World | September 21, 2018 11:40 IST

  They created Mirai Botnet, a powerful malware that knocked out thousands of websites in the Northeast, California, and Western Europe in September 2016.

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  India's second biggest cooperative bank cyber-attacked twice in 3 days; Rs 94.42 crore siphoned off by hackers

  India | August 14, 2018 15:23 IST

  Established in 1906, the Pune-headquartered Cosmos Bank is the second oldest and second biggest cooperative bank in the country, enjoying the status of a multi-state scheduled bank.

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  Fileless cyber attacks on the rise in 2018: McAfee

  Technology | July 28, 2018 18:37 IST

  "In 2018, we have seen rapid growth in the use of CactusTorch, which can execute custom shellcode on Windows systems," it added.