US, UK accuse China of cyberespionage that hit millions of peopleAuthorities on both sides of the Atlantic nicknamed the hacking group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 or "APT31", calling it an arm of China'...
26 Mar, 2024, 09.21 AM IST
A fragile global economy is at stake as US and China seek to cool tensions at APEC summitThe world's economy could surely benefit from a U.S.-China detente. Since 2020, it has suffered one crisis after another - the COVID-19 pan...
12 Nov, 2023, 05.45 PM IST
Beware! These Chinese hackers can hack emails, bank accounts, government data and corporate financial dataWestern intelligence agencies and cybersecurity experts have attributed digital intrusion campaigns worldwide to Chinese hacking teams. Tar...
28 Jul, 2023, 11.28 AM IST
No reason to doubt Microsoft's attribution of hack to China hackers: US State DepartmentIn a blog post published Tuesday, Microsoft said a China-based hacking group has breached email accounts linked to government agencies in W...
13 Jul, 2023, 10.29 AM IST
Security firm: Chinese hackers broke into email security appliance in spying campaignIn a blog post on Thursday, Google-owned Mandiant expressed "high confidence" that the group exploiting a software vulnerability in Barracu...
15 Jun, 2023, 09.00 PM IST
Razorpay, Cashfree in RBI’s crosshairs; Meta takes down Indian firm’s spyware networkEarlier this year, the RBI gave an in-principle nod to Razorpay and Cashfree for their payment aggregator (PA) licence applications. Five m...
16 Dec, 2022, 08.58 PM IST
China says US addresses used its computers to launch cyberattacks on Russia, UkraineCyberattacks have been a major point of tension between the United States and its allies and China, as the former have accused China of a c...
11 Mar, 2022, 03.37 PM IST
Facebook cracks down on harmful real networks, using playbook against fakesThe new approach uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of networks engaged in influence opera...
17 Sep, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts using playbook against fake networksThe new approach, reported here for the first time, uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of ...
16 Sep, 2021, 08.03 PM IST
United States and allies accuse China of global hacking spreeThe United States was joined by NATO, the European Union, Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan and New Zealand in condemning the spying, which...
20 Jul, 2021, 02.37 PM IST
Israeli linked to India's BellTroX in hacker-for-hire scheme seeks plea deal in USIsraeli private detective Aviram Azari is being charged in relation to BellTroX InfoTech Services, which was behind a hacking campaign that...
01 Jul, 2021, 10.39 AM IST
EXPLAINER: How bad is the hack that targeted US agencies?The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of business...
15 Dec, 2020, 10.38 AM IST
Phishing ploy targets COVID-19 vaccine distribution effortThe researchers said they could not be sure who was behind the campaign, which began in September, or if it was successful. But the precisi...
03 Dec, 2020, 08.44 PM IST
The China syndrome: While the world is being Sinified, the resistance is gathering force tooBeijing has developed an extensive panoply of mercantilist, beggar-thy-neighbour policies. India is its victim.
19 Jun, 2020, 10.22 PM IST
Ransomware attacks double since 2017, HR on hackers' targets: Verizon Data Breach ReportVerizon's analysis show that attacks are now moving into business critical systems, which encrypt file servers or databases, inflicting mor...
11 Apr, 2018, 02.19 PM IST
India becoming strategic target for cyber-criminals: ReportIn the first half of 2015, FireEye revealed two attacks likely conducted by China-based threat actors on Indian organisations.
02 Oct, 2015, 03.40 PM IST
Cyber attacks to fall in 2015, but will be more sophisticatedThe report states that healthcare sector will see a rise in data stealing attack campaigns as the records hold a treasure trove of PII.
19 Nov, 2014, 03.04 PM IST