War without borders: The rise of cyberattacks beyond the battlefieldCyber conflict has escalated beyond borders following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, with hacktivists and state-backed actors launching global...
10 May, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
Schools reach out to Canvas hackers as breach hits US classroomsA cybercriminal group, ShinyHunters, stole vast amounts of student data from the educational platform Canvas. Some affected schools and uni...
09 May, 2026, 07.01 AM IST
Universities around the world scramble after cyberattack disrupts student portalsA significant cyberattack on the Canvas learning platform has disrupted academic operations at numerous universities across the US, Austral...
08 May, 2026, 10.27 AM IST
‘Pay or Leak’: How ShinyHunters hacked into Instructure’s Canvas platform leaving universities across US cluelessA major cyber attack by ShinyHunters has crippled Instructure Canvas, the learning platform used by several universities including Harvard ...
08 May, 2026, 09.29 AM IST
AI won’t fix broken systems: India needs secure-by-design approachIndia's digital infrastructure faces a critical challenge. While AI accelerates attacks, the core issue is weak system design. Security req...
30 Apr, 2026, 11.23 PM IST
What is Anthropic's Mythos model and what does it do?Anthropic Mythos AI model explained: Anthropic's powerful AI, Mythos, can uncover software vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale, leadi...
13 Apr, 2026, 06.31 PM IST
How is the FBI tracing Bitcoin blockchain transactions to crack the Nancy Guthrie disappearance — can crypto ransom trails expose suspects, locations, and hidden networks?Over 2 months after the disappearance, the FBI Bitcoin investigation Nancy Guthrie case is now focusing on crypto clues as a key breakthrou...
07 Apr, 2026, 07.49 PM IST
AI recruiting startup Mercor hit by cyberattack; Meta halts collaborationAs per media reports, Mercor was among thousands of firms affected by the compromise of LiteLLM. Even as Mercor has claimed that the malici...
04 Apr, 2026, 04.36 PM IST
Cybercriminals claim hack on Japan's Asahi GroupQilin, which operates a ransomware-as-a-service platform that allows users to carry out attacks in exchange for a percentage of extortion p...
07 Oct, 2025, 08.59 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
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
Has America’s banking information been compromised? What is this ransomware group’s demand?A ransomware group named ‘LockBit’ is claiming to have hacked into the servers of the US Federal Reserve and stolen ‘sensitive’ banking inf...
25 Jun, 2024, 06.43 PM IST
US healthcare providers hit by frozen payments in ransomware outageLarge hospital chains are also locked out of processing payments with some absorbing the upfront costs of being unable to collect, accordin...
29 Feb, 2024, 05.15 PM IST
CERT-In cautions internet users against Ransomware 'Akira' attackThe agency is the central technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guards the cyber space against phishing and hacking assaults and simil...
23 Jul, 2023, 01.56 PM IST
New ransomware makes victim donate to poor, financial help to needy patients"GoodWill ransomware was identified by CloudSEK researchers in March 2022. As the threat group's name suggests, the operators are allegedly...
22 May, 2022, 07.21 PM IST
Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who disabled them.While shutting REvil for now would give Putin and Biden a chance to show they were confronting the problem, it could also give the ransomwa...
14 Jul, 2021, 07.36 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