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Australian Companies Recover Faster With Tougher Regulations After Cyberattack: Study
Australian companies have sharply reduced the time it takes to recover from cyberattacks, a sign of improved preparedness amid heightened regulatory pressure following high-profile breaches at Optus and Medibank.
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Coinbase Says Cybercriminals Breached User Data, Demanded $20 Million Ransom
In a video message posted on X, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that cyber attackers had written to the exchange, claiming to have obtained personal data of a portion of Coinbase users. In exchange for not leaking the data, the attackers demanded a ransom of $20 million (roughly Rs. 171 crore).Â
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All About String Of Cybersecurity Breaches In US That Were Blamed On China
The United States recently said that hackers, linked to the Chinese government, breached the US Treasury Department's computer security guardrails in early December and stole unclassified documents.
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US Treasury Says Was Targeted By China State-Sponsored Cyberattack
The US Treasury Department said Monday that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach resulting in access to some of its workstations, according to a letter to Congress seen by AFP.
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YouTube Restores Access After Crypto Scammers Hijack Ranveer Allahbadia's Channel to Trick Viewers
This week, cyber criminals breached content creator Ranveer Allahbadia’s handles on YouTube, replaced related logos and images with those of Elon Musk and Tesla, as well as deleted all of the videos that were published on the pages. The channels started promoting a crypto fraud scheme, for hours before YouTube restored access to Allahbadia.
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Crypto Platform WazirX Offers $23 Million To Recover $234 Million Lost In Cyber Breach
Crypto platform WazirX, which lost a staggering $234 million worth of digital assets in a cyber breach, on Sunday announced $23 million in bounty to recover the stolen funds.
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CoinStats Hit With Security Breach, Over 1,500 Linked Crypto Wallets Compromised
CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...
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Britain's Defence Ministry Hit By Cyberattack, Ex-Minister Targets China
Britain's defence ministry has been the target of a large-scale cyberattack, a government minister confirmed on Monday. Work and Pensions Minister Mel Stride said the attack was on a system run by an outside firm.
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Anonymous Coder Nearly Hacks Huge Chunk Of The Internet. How Grave Was It
Outside the world of open-source software, its likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems.
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3 More Arrested In Connection With ₹ 25 Crore Cyber Fraud Case In Maharashtra
The police in Maharashtra's Thane city have taken into custody three more persons over a financial crime that involved breaching the system of a payment gateway service provider and siphoning off Rs 25 crore.
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MOVEit Hack Compromised Data at Around 600 Organisations Globally; Fallout Is Only Beginning: Cyber Analysts
A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show ...
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US SEC Set to Adopt New Cyber Rule, Unveils Brokerage AI Proposal
Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend with the mounting cost and frequency of cyber attacks.
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North Korean Hacker Group Said to Have Targeted Several US Crypto Firms
A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target an unknown number of cryptocurrency companies, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The hackers broke into Louisville, Colorado-based JumpCloud in late June and used their access to the company’s system...
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Threat Actors Do Not Have Access to CoWIN Portal and Backend Database, Claims Cybersecurity Firm
After the Union health ministry dismissed reports of a data breach on the CoWIN platform, cyber security firm CloudSEK has said that threat actors do not have access to the entire portal nor the backend database. "Based on matching fields from Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the inform...
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Police Notice To 11 Organisations Over Massive Cyber Theft
The Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad has issued notices to as many as 11 organisations, including three banks, a social media giant and an Information Technology services company, asking their representatives to appear before it over a breach of data.
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Australian Companies Recover Faster With Tougher Regulations After Cyberattack: Study
Australian companies have sharply reduced the time it takes to recover from cyberattacks, a sign of improved preparedness amid heightened regulatory pressure following high-profile breaches at Optus and Medibank.
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Coinbase Says Cybercriminals Breached User Data, Demanded $20 Million Ransom
In a video message posted on X, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that cyber attackers had written to the exchange, claiming to have obtained personal data of a portion of Coinbase users. In exchange for not leaking the data, the attackers demanded a ransom of $20 million (roughly Rs. 171 crore).Â
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All About String Of Cybersecurity Breaches In US That Were Blamed On China
The United States recently said that hackers, linked to the Chinese government, breached the US Treasury Department's computer security guardrails in early December and stole unclassified documents.
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US Treasury Says Was Targeted By China State-Sponsored Cyberattack
The US Treasury Department said Monday that a China state-sponsored actor was behind a cyber breach resulting in access to some of its workstations, according to a letter to Congress seen by AFP.
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YouTube Restores Access After Crypto Scammers Hijack Ranveer Allahbadia's Channel to Trick Viewers
This week, cyber criminals breached content creator Ranveer Allahbadia’s handles on YouTube, replaced related logos and images with those of Elon Musk and Tesla, as well as deleted all of the videos that were published on the pages. The channels started promoting a crypto fraud scheme, for hours before YouTube restored access to Allahbadia.
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Crypto Platform WazirX Offers $23 Million To Recover $234 Million Lost In Cyber Breach
Crypto platform WazirX, which lost a staggering $234 million worth of digital assets in a cyber breach, on Sunday announced $23 million in bounty to recover the stolen funds.
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CoinStats Hit With Security Breach, Over 1,500 Linked Crypto Wallets Compromised
CoinStats has brought its functioning app to a temporary pause after suffering a hack attack over the weekend. Cyber criminals behind the attack lured CoinStats users to click malicious links, falsely informing users of a reward worth 14.2 ETH or $48,128 (roughly Rs. 40.2 lakh). A total of 1,590 crypto wallets have been affected as part of this bre...
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Britain's Defence Ministry Hit By Cyberattack, Ex-Minister Targets China
Britain's defence ministry has been the target of a large-scale cyberattack, a government minister confirmed on Monday. Work and Pensions Minister Mel Stride said the attack was on a system run by an outside firm.
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Anonymous Coder Nearly Hacks Huge Chunk Of The Internet. How Grave Was It
Outside the world of open-source software, its likely few people would have heard about XZ Utils, a small but widely used tool for data compression in Linux systems.
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3 More Arrested In Connection With ₹ 25 Crore Cyber Fraud Case In Maharashtra
The police in Maharashtra's Thane city have taken into custody three more persons over a financial crime that involved breaching the system of a payment gateway service provider and siphoning off Rs 25 crore.
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MOVEit Hack Compromised Data at Around 600 Organisations Globally; Fallout Is Only Beginning: Cyber Analysts
A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show ...
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US SEC Set to Adopt New Cyber Rule, Unveils Brokerage AI Proposal
Wall Street's top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend with the mounting cost and frequency of cyber attacks.
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North Korean Hacker Group Said to Have Targeted Several US Crypto Firms
A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target an unknown number of cryptocurrency companies, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The hackers broke into Louisville, Colorado-based JumpCloud in late June and used their access to the company’s system...
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Threat Actors Do Not Have Access to CoWIN Portal and Backend Database, Claims Cybersecurity Firm
After the Union health ministry dismissed reports of a data breach on the CoWIN platform, cyber security firm CloudSEK has said that threat actors do not have access to the entire portal nor the backend database. "Based on matching fields from Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the inform...
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Police Notice To 11 Organisations Over Massive Cyber Theft
The Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad has issued notices to as many as 11 organisations, including three banks, a social media giant and an Information Technology services company, asking their representatives to appear before it over a breach of data.
