Cyberattacks surge across UAE amid Iran conflict, businesses face disruptions and rising risksCyberattacks are surging across UAE and Gulf. Financial services, government platforms, and utilities face a sustained wave of breaches. Cy...
30 Apr, 2026, 06.19 AM IST
eBay outage: Frustrated users turn to Instagram after Facebook and X support shutdown; ‘Your site was down all day on Sunday’eBay experienced a significant outage on Sunday, April 26, leaving users unable to access the platform. With Facebook and X support already...
27 Apr, 2026, 09.56 AM IST
eBay outage: Is eBay down right now? Hundreds of users report app, website and checkout issueseBay outage: Thousands of eBay shoppers experienced significant disruptions on Sunday, April 26, with a sharp increase in reported issues s...
27 Apr, 2026, 09.08 AM IST
Cyber pirates at large, India readies moatsThe Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and defen...
31 Mar, 2026, 07.49 AM IST
Ransomware groups are blurring the line between cybercrime and ‘hacktivism’Ransomware is evolving from profit-driven attacks to political tools, targeting countries like India and the US, according to a report by A...
31 Jul, 2025, 12.31 PM IST
Cyber hackers launched 650 attacks on Indian infrastructure between May 7–10: ReportThe cyber assault by Pakistan-aligned actors began on April 17, weeks before India's counterterrorism strikes under Operation Sindoor. Quic...
23 May, 2025, 09.06 PM IST
Israel-Gaza conflict: Hacktivist groups target Israeli assets, Jerusalem PostExamples of serious or long-term damage are still thin, but the activism shows how a subset of supporters use digital tools to bring the wa...
11 Oct, 2023, 04.31 PM IST
Cyber attacks against Indian government agencies doubled in 2022: CloudSEK reportIndia, along with China, USA and Indonesia, continued to be the most targeted countries in the last two years accounting for 40% of the tot...
30 Dec, 2022, 01.13 PM IST
Cyberattacks on Indian government intensify, emerges as most targeted entity in 2022The surge can be attributed to the significant increase in hacktivist activity. It accounted for about 9 per cent of the recorded incidents...
30 Dec, 2022, 12.28 PM IST
Threats rise for critical infra as hacktivists go on overdriveHacktivism - the act of hacking or breaking into a computer system for politically or socially motivated purposes, is set to see a rise in ...
25 Dec, 2022, 11.26 PM IST
Several US air travel websites become inaccessible after cyber-attack threat from Russian hacktivist groupAfter a cyber-attack threat from a Russian hacktivist group, at least 13 air travel websites in US became defunct. However, airport operati...
11 Oct, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
The growing cyber threat to India from Far EastAround 2,000 Indian websites were hacked in June-July 2022 alone. This is one of the most serious cyber attacks on India in the recent past.
12 Aug, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
Ukrainian hacktivists use DDoS, one of cyber's oldest tools, to attack Russian online platformsPresident Joe Biden informed on Monday that Russia is exploring ways to fight the cyberattacks.
23 Mar, 2022, 08.04 PM IST
BEML's internal data and employee ids, passwords leaked on dark web: CybleThe firm suspects that a hacktivist or a Pakistan-based threat actor called ‘R3dr0x’ has targeted the website and leaked sensitive data fil...
09 Jun, 2020, 06.54 PM IST
- Wikileaks hacktivists attack shopping web site Amazon
Popular shopping web site Amazon was unavailable for some time in several countries on Sunday after it reportedly was attacked by 'hacktivi...
13 Dec, 2010, 10.33 AM IST
- Hacker claims credit for WikiLeaks takedown
A computer hacker known as the "Jester" who calls himself a "hacktivist for good" is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeak...
29 Nov, 2010, 10.29 PM IST
- Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-cha...
26 Oct, 2008, 08.28 AM IST