Ransom and kidnapping has been a part of conventional crime for times immemorial. It was being done in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes, but the variant it created in the digital age, to start with, defied all wisdom. Instead of a human being or group of them, what was held hostage […]
Though the world has been under these attacks for quite some time now yet we rarely hear of this in the Indian public domain. How many of the average educated Indians would be aware of it, is a loaded question and we can leave it at that. Suffice to say, that it is still not
Getting hacked in the new normal, is a truism that has gained ground in recent years. As the world moved to a totally digital mode, courtesy the Covid push, forcing people to embrace technology, primarily with no other workable choice left. The total digital transformation led to various unwanted changes in the cyber ecosystem. Cyber
Daily Post 3004 CLEO DATA THEFT ATTACKS? Same as getting hacked is the new normal, a ransomware gang taking responsibility for a ransomware attack has nearly become normal. They are convinced that the long arm of the law will not reach them and if it does in most exceptional circumstances, they will find ways and
Daily Post 2999 16 BROKERS BREACHED Getting hacked in the new normal. In this new normal more often than not ransomware is the favoured tool. Ransomware gangs are reigning kings of the cyber criminal world gaining more and more expertise and consequently striking much deeper for bigger booty. As per our, the legal mandate to
Daily Post 2996 PEGASUS KEEPS STRIKING BACK! Pegasus was developed by 2011, a military grade spyware, which it has proved to be in the last 13 years of its existence. Created by Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO group in 2011, it still rules the roost in the area of its expertise, with even sheer detection next
DailyPost 2988 GLOBAL RANSOMWARE MASTERMIND ARRESTED That ransomware is the nuclear war head of cyber crimes is to state the obvious. Ransomware gangs remain the reigning king of the organised cyber crime syndicates. Their attack sends a chill down the spine of any organisation or government department / agency. The way money is generated out
DailyPost 2968 CRUCIAL DEFENCE UNIT UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK We keep speculating about the state of cyber security in India given the fact that barely anything authenticated or validated comes out in the public domain either vetted by the government or the organisation(s) in question. There is still no legally mandated standardised breach reporting system in
DailyPost 2965 CACTUS TO CLOP TO HELLCAT Very rarely a topic can be so intriguing. It would really take an effort to unravel it, but certainly very doable given the quantum of information available on the public domain, more so related to IT / cyber security. Without making it a riddle, the simple answer is
DailyPost 2955 DIGITAL ARREST – CAN WE STEM THE DIGITAL ROT Taking the name of a government agency surreptitiously and making some ill-gotten money or playing the government middlemen and disappearing is quite a known form of crime. The coming of the digital age ushered in a new set of crimes generically called cyber crime.
DailyPost 2951 CICADA3301 RANSOMWARE If you go by the research being conducted in the field of ransomware, it would certainly be amongst one of top areas of computer science, albeit it used on the wrong side of the law. If you take it as development to successful production and upgrade, that too with crazy timelines,
