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40 countries will sign a pledge to stop paying ransoms demanded by cybercriminal groups at the International Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit in Washington, D.C. Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology at the White House, suggested that this initiative is a response to the increasing global threat …

In its Q2 2023 Global Ransomware Report, Corvus noted a significant resurgence in global ransomware attacks, which has continued through the third quarter. Now, with two months remaining in the year, the number of ransomware victims in 2023 has already surpassed what was observed for 2021 and 2022. If the …

Details of 81.5 crore Indians linked to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are reportedly being sold in India’s largest data leak case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s top investigative agency, is likely to investigate the matter once ICMR files a complaint. A report found that someone, …

Internet services will face partial disruption in the country for around 20 hours on October 31 and November 2. This is because the country’s first submarine cable will be partially disconnected for an upgrade. The circuits through the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) submarine cable installed Cox’s …

F5 warned customers about a serious security flaw in BIG-IP that may lead to unauthorized remote code execution. An issue has been identified in the configuration utility component. It is assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747 and has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. F5 has stated that an …

The NID server of the election commission will be down for 64 hours starting from Thursday for maintenance purposes, according to an EC source. The NID wing informed the officials at various levels through text messages. The server room will be moved during maintenance. All server and network services will …

Ransomware activity soared in September after a temporary decrease in August, which was still higher than usual for summer. In September, ransomware groups conducted 514 attacks, surpassing the 459 attacks recorded in March 2023 according to NCC group cyber threat intelligence report. The March attacks were mainly caused by the …

October is observed globally as “cyber security awareness” month. In continuation of this, meetings, seminars, workshops and training are being organized in Bangladesh at public and private level. Comparatively less presence of women has been noticed in these places. According to a study by Cyber Security Ventures, women will make …

Cisco plans to release a patch for two zero-day flaws in its IOS XE devices on October 22. The first Cisco zero-day bug, which is named CVE-2023-20198, was reported on Oct. 16. By the time it was found, it had already been used by attackers to compromise over 10,000 Cisco …

CloudSEK’s dedicated research team delves deep into the layers of complexity to uncover a story of financial manipulation. In this comprehensive report, CloudSEK explore a money laundering scheme that exploits India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), revealing a web of deceit with real consequences for unsuspecting victims. Scammers are using illegal …