US, UK and Australia sanction Russian cyber firms over ransomware linksThe US, UK and Australia imposed coordinated sanctions on Russia-based Media Land and related entities for providing “bulletproof hosting” ...
19 Nov, 2025, 09.46 PM IST
Oracle says hackers are trying to extort its customersOracle confirmed its E-Business Suite customers received extortion emails. Google first warned about this high-volume hacking campaign. Hac...
03 Oct, 2025, 08.08 AM IST
$24M in crypto, 30 Bitcoins, and $700K seized as FBI takes down Russian hacker behind 700,000 computer ransomware army in Operation EndgameThe United States has indicted Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov from Moscow. He led a global cybercrime group using Qakbot malware. This malwar...
24 May, 2025, 08.21 AM IST
Donald Trump administration to release Russian cybercriminal in exchange for US teacher Marc FogelMarc Fogel, a 63-year-old American teacher, was arrested in Moscow in August 2021 for possessing cannabis, which he allegedly used for chro...
13 Feb, 2025, 10.16 PM IST
Russian cybersecurity experts keen to share expertise with India amid rising threatsCyberattacks in India are increasing at an alarming rate, with two-thirds resulting in data leaks. A Russian cybersecurity firm reports a 1...
12 Nov, 2024, 09.14 AM IST
The US and Microsoft disrupt a Russian hacking group targeting American officials and nonprofitsOn Thursday, a U.S. court unsealed documents authorizing Microsoft and the Department of Justice to seize more than 100 website domain name...
04 Oct, 2024, 11.40 AM IST
Explained: What is Lockbit? The digital extortion gang on a cybercrime spreeThe cybercrime gang infects a victim organisation's system with ransomware - malicious software that encrypts data - and then coerces targe...
11 Nov, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
Hackers create ChatGPT-driven Telegram bots that can write malwareCyber-criminals are using Microsoft-owned ChatGPT to create Telegram bots that can write malware and steal your data, new research has reve...
12 Feb, 2023, 11.57 AM IST
FBI to form digital currency unit, Justice Dept taps new crypto czarThe creation of the FBI's "virtual asset exploitation" unit comes after the Justice Department's largest-ever financial seizure earlier thi...
18 Feb, 2022, 02.30 PM IST
FBI to form digital currency unit, Justice Dept taps new crypto czarCryptocurrencies rely on blockchain technology, a database shared across a network of computers, in which records are difficult to change o...
18 Feb, 2022, 07.37 AM IST
Stolen Indian card details in largest slice of database released on Dark Web by cybercriminalsVisa and Mastercard dominate the leaked database with 48% and 47% of the cards, respectively. Around 4%, or 39,000 cards, are attached to R...
06 Aug, 2021, 11.59 PM IST
How to put a stop to Russia’s new form of organized crimeRansomware attacks can cripple critical infrastructure like hospitals and schools and even core functions of major cities. Using methods as...
01 Aug, 2021, 02.26 PM IST
Beware! Your love for Elon Musk and Dogecoin may land you in a scamBrandShield’s analysis found that Dogecoin, whose price movements are largely swayed by what its patron Elon Musk tweets, has seen an explo...
11 Jul, 2021, 10.05 AM IST
Biden warns Putin to act against ransomware groupsIn Biden’s starkest warning yet, he conveyed in a phone call to Putin that the attacks would no longer be treated only as criminal acts, bu...
10 Jul, 2021, 01.20 PM IST
Russia's FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov says Moscow will cooperate with US against hackersFSB chief Alexander Bortnikov said the security agency would follow agreements reached by presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden in discus...
23 Jun, 2021, 05.41 PM IST
India, Russia may ink cyber-security pact next weekWays to check online propaganda and recruitment by such groups, and keeping hackers from sabotaging critical infrastructure are among the i...
14 Oct, 2016, 01.22 PM IST
India 2nd in list of countries facing cyber attack on mobilesIndia, with 7.9 per cent of attacks, stood at the second spot, followed by Vietnam (3.96 per cent), Ukraine (3.84 per cent) and the UK (3.4...
02 Mar, 2014, 11.47 AM IST