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Reddit has acknowledged a recent cyberattack that resulted in the theft of sensitive company information. The company referred to the breach in a security alert as a “sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack”. The attackers targeted Reddit employees by creating a fake internal network site, a phishing page designed to steal their login information and multi-factor … Read more
US computing giant Microsoft said Friday that it had identified Iranian state actors as those behind the recent cyberattack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Clint Watts, the general manager of Microsoft‘s Digital Threat Analysis Center, said that the hackers, who called themselves “Holy Souls,” were Iranian cybersecurity firm Emennet Pasargad. In early January, Holy … Read more
At a time when institutions are seeing an increased cyber attacks globally, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that around 50 government websites have been hacked and there were eight data breaches in 2022-23.Union minister of communication, electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told Rajya Sabha that in comparison with 2022-23, there were 59 government … Read more
The White House on Wednesday (local time) said it has not seen evidence of a cyberattack being the cause of a system outage at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that has caused hundreds of flights to be delayed. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted that “there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this … Read more
LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. The announcement is the latest update from a breach that occurred in August. At that time, the company said they had seen no evidence that the … Read more
Most employees are not prepared to give robots complete autonomy, according to a study by Kaspersky. The research, which investigated the impacts of automation and the increased use of robotics and other AI-powered machines, found that the majority of employees do not think that production processes run by robots can be quickly restored in the … Read more
Six lakh complaints of cybercrime have been registered at the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System since its inception in 2019, Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra said on Tuesday. Mishra said the Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System, under the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), has … Read more