The Reserve Bank of India fined Visa 24.1 million rupees (nearly $288,000) for using an unauthorized payment transfer system. The central bank made this announcement on Friday (July 26). “It was discovered that the entity (Visa) had implemented a payment authentication solution without regulatory clearance from the RBI,” the central …

Stress test gauged how banks would respond to and recover from severe but plausible cybersecurity incident 109 banks tested, of which 28 underwent more extensive testing Results to feed into ECB’s 2024 Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to conduct its first thematic stress …

Risk of cyber attack, the country’s main stock market Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong stock exchange (CSE) website is closed. It is reported that it is not possible to access the DSE website as the website has been closed since Friday (July 26) morning. Acting Managing Director (MD) of …

Google fixed a bug in Chrome’s Password Manager that caused user credentials to vanish temporarily. A problem with Google Chrome’s Password Manager caused an 18-hour outage on Wednesday. This affected users who use the tool to save and automatically fill in their passwords. Many users said they couldn’t find their …

India’s Communications Minister Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani confirmed a breach at the state-owned telecom operator BSNL on May 20 during a session in the Lok Sabha on July 24. The Minister provided this information in a written response to a question from Congress MP Amar Singh. CERT-In, India’s national agency for …

Malware based threats increased by 30% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, according to SonicWall’s 2024 Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report. Malware attacks increased significantly from March to May, with a 92% year-on-year increase in May. The firm also observed an average of 526 …

A new critical vulnerability in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been found. This vulnerability allows a specialized attack called “TuDoor” that can poison DNS caches, cause denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, and deplete resources, posing a significant threat to internet security. Specialists have conducted experiments that confirm the feasibility of the …

A serious vulnerability, CVE-2023-45249 (CVSS 9.8), has been found in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI), a widely used software-defined infrastructure solution for cyber protection. The vulnerability is due to the use of default passwords, which could enable remote attackers to run any commands on affected systems, potentially leading to a complete …

OpenAI is testing a new search engine “SearchGPT” using generative artificial intelligence to challenge Google’s dominance in the online search market. SearchGPT will initially be available to a limited group of users and publishers. OpenAI plans to eventually integrate the search capabilities into ChatGPT instead of offering it as a …

CISA released two advisories about security issues for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on July 25, 2024. These advisories offer important information about current vulnerabilities and exploits for ICS. ICSA-24-207-01 Siemens SICAM Products: Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to perform an unauthorized password reset which could lead …