Cyber Attack

China on Tuesday criticised the US for "fabricated" allegations that Beijing was behind the massive cyber attack on Microsoft.

The US government has announced reward payments of up to $10 million (roughly Rs. 74.6 crores) for tips that led to the arrest of cyber criminals. In a first for a US state agency, the reward payment options include cryptocurrency payouts.

Computer systems of several companies across the world, including 800 physical grocery stores of Sweden's Coop, that were shut down after attacked by REvil ransomware could take weeks to recover, cyber security experts said.

In a first, the RBI Governor flagged the rising data breaches and cyber attacks as a risk facing the economy, along with others like firming global commodity prices.

India has made only modest progress in building its policy and beliefs for cyberspace security, with its offensive cyber capability focussed on Pakistan, according to a study conducted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

The UN Security Council on Tuesday will hold its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries' key infrastructure, an issue Joe Biden recently raised with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

FBI Director Christopher Wray pleaded with public companies and other hacking victims to avoid paying ransom, saying he fears it will only embolden cyber criminals to ramp up future attacks.

Russia will work together with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the RIA news agency quoted FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov as saying on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden and President Putin face off Wednesday at a tense Geneva summit, where ghosts of the Cold War will hover over modern-day US concerns about Russian cyber attacks and what the US sees as a dangerous authoritarian drift.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed accusations that Russia was behind cyberattacks against the United States as "farcical" in an interview with NBC broadcast on Monday ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden.

It is important to clarify that there has been no cyber breach into the email system of the Government of India. The email system is totally secure.

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to continual hacking attempts over recent days but the cyber attack on Qatar's flagship broadcaster had been fended off.

The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major fuel network.

The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.

 A ransomware attack on JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, by a criminal group likely based in Russia has strengthened the Biden administration's resolve to hold Moscow responsible for costly cyber assaults — even if they are not directly linked to the Kremlin.

China on Tuesday criticised the US for "fabricated" allegations that Beijing was behind the massive cyber attack on Microsoft.

The US government has announced reward payments of up to $10 million (roughly Rs. 74.6 crores) for tips that led to the arrest of cyber criminals. In a first for a US state agency, the reward payment options include cryptocurrency payouts.

Computer systems of several companies across the world, including 800 physical grocery stores of Sweden's Coop, that were shut down after attacked by REvil ransomware could take weeks to recover, cyber security experts said.

In a first, the RBI Governor flagged the rising data breaches and cyber attacks as a risk facing the economy, along with others like firming global commodity prices.

India has made only modest progress in building its policy and beliefs for cyberspace security, with its offensive cyber capability focussed on Pakistan, according to a study conducted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

The UN Security Council on Tuesday will hold its first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, addressing the growing threat of hacks to countries' key infrastructure, an issue Joe Biden recently raised with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

FBI Director Christopher Wray pleaded with public companies and other hacking victims to avoid paying ransom, saying he fears it will only embolden cyber criminals to ramp up future attacks.

Russia will work together with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the RIA news agency quoted FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov as saying on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden and President Putin face off Wednesday at a tense Geneva summit, where ghosts of the Cold War will hover over modern-day US concerns about Russian cyber attacks and what the US sees as a dangerous authoritarian drift.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed accusations that Russia was behind cyberattacks against the United States as "farcical" in an interview with NBC broadcast on Monday ahead of his summit with President Joe Biden.

It is important to clarify that there has been no cyber breach into the email system of the Government of India. The email system is totally secure.

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to continual hacking attempts over recent days but the cyber attack on Qatar's flagship broadcaster had been fended off.

The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major fuel network.

The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.

 A ransomware attack on JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, by a criminal group likely based in Russia has strengthened the Biden administration's resolve to hold Moscow responsible for costly cyber assaults — even if they are not directly linked to the Kremlin.