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Year in Review: The biggest cyberattacks of 2025Cyberattacks intensified in 2025, with India alone recording over 265 million incidents, including attacks linked to Operation Sindoor and ...- AI is making death threats way more realisticCaitlin Roper, an Australian activist, was traumatised by AI-generated death threats and violent images of herself shared online. The abuse...
- SC warning puts spotlight on cracks in cyberlaws amid digital arrest scamsThe Supreme Court’s sharp warning over rising “digital arrest” scams, where fraudsters pose as judges or police to extort victims, has reig...
- 'Vibe hacking’: A new type of cybercrime is on the rise, warn cybersecurity expertsCybersecurity experts are warning of "vibe hacking," a new AI-driven cybercrime where criminals automate and scale digital attacks. Special...
- Dark side of the boom: How hackers are vibing with AICybercriminals exploit generative AI via “vibe hacking,” using prompt injections and dark web tools like FraudGPT to run phishing, ransomwa...
- US House passes bill to ban sharing of revenge porn, awaits Donald Trump's signatureThe US House has approved the bipartisan Take It Down Act, making it illegal to share explicit images and AI deepfakes without consent. Pla...
- Nigerian scammers accused in AI-driven fake Brad Pitt fraudThe scammers deceived 53-year-old Anne, into believing that she was in a romantic relationship with a 61-year-old Hollywood actor Brad Pitt...
- Sunil Mittal exposes AI scam, says “my voice was perfectly articulated” in cloning attemptSunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, shared an alarming incident of an attempted AI-powered scam involving his cloned voice...
- GenAI a superweapon in the hands of cybercriminals: Akamai CTO Robert BlumofeRobert Blumofe said over the past decade or so, the cyber threat landscape has moved from attacks by relatively unsophisticated hacktivists...
- ‘Sachet’ covers now guard against cyber fraudsters using AIA recent study by Deloitte said that India’s cyber insurance market worth $50–60 million in 2023 is expected to grow at an annual rate of 2...
- OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson gaffe pushes voice cloning into spotlightOpenAI was forced to apologise to actor Scarlett Johansson last week for using her voice -- or something very similar -- on its latest chat...
- Zero-day vulnerabilities becoming major source of cyberattacks: VerizonCyberattacks exploiting vulnerabilities tripled in 2023, driven by MOVEit. Extortion rose while stolen credentials fell. Financially motiva...
- Man gets caught in deepfake trap, almost ends life; among first such cases in IndiaCriminals extorted a 76-year-old man by using a video featuring the face and voice of a retired IPS officer in UP Police. The senior citize...
- Crooks blackmailing influencers using AI-made deep nudesAs per data gathered by ET, keywords like 'Remove Dress AI' and 'Deep fake AI tools' have seen a huge surge in Searches with related querie...
- Age of AI has led to an alarming proliferation of deep fake pornWomen are a particular target of AI tools and apps -- widely available for free and requiring no technical expertise -- that allow users to...
- In age of AI, women battle rise of deepfake pornArtificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes are typically associated with fake viral images of well-known personalities such as Pope Francis ...
- Exciting AI can make people vulnerable to scams. Tips to identify online fraudsOnline scams, deepfake porn and romance bots can be incredibly dangerous in the hands of criminals.
- Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots: dangerous side of advanced AIIn the wrong hands, generative AI could do untold damage. There's a lot we stand to lose, should laws and regulation fail to keep up.
- Seqrite predicts increased ransomware attacks on healthcare and pharmaceutical sector in 2021umerous hospitals, COVID-19 research firms, and pharma companies have fallen victim to ransomware in the last quarter of ‘20, making it nec...
- McAfee Labs threat predictions 2020Cybercriminals are increasing the complexity and volume of their attacks and campaigns, looking for ways to stay one step ahead of cybersec...
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