Cybercrime complaints rise 5X in 3 years, financial frauds triple: MHA tells Parliament, ETCISO Cybercrime in India is escalating at a concerning pace, as per the latest figures shared by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2025, during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. According to the official data, the number of cybercrime ...
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J&K Bank’s robust security system foiled all cyberattacks post Pahalgam, says CEO
J&K Bank’s robust security system foiled all cyberattacks post Pahalgam, says CEO https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-122953147,imgsize-75244,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/jk-banks-cybersecurity-foils-post-terror-cyberattacks-says-ceo.jpg Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s website was subjected to a series of cyberattacks from Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack, but a robust security system ensured all such attempts were foiled, said MD and CEO Amitava Chatterjee on Monday. In an exclusive interview with PTI, Chatterjee said ...
Read More »Chaos RaaS Emerges After BlackSuit Takedown, Demanding $300K from U.S. Victims
Chaos RaaS Emerges After BlackSuit Takedown, Demanding $300K from U.S. Victims https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ransomware-malware.jpg A newly emerged ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gang called Chaos is likely made up of former members of the BlackSuit crew, as the latter’s dark web infrastructure has been the subject of a law enforcement seizure. Chaos, which sprang forth in February 2025, is the latest entrant in the ransomware ...
Read More »Creating realistic deepfakes getting easier than ever, fighting back may take even more AI
Creating realistic deepfakes getting easier than ever, fighting back may take even more AI https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-122969361,imgsize-71590,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/next-gen-tech/deepfakes-the-rising-threat-to-national-security-and-corporate-america.jpg For Washington insiders, seeing and hearing is no longer believing, thanks to a spate of recent incidents involving deepfakes impersonating top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration. Digital fakes are coming for corporate America, too, as criminal gangs and hackers associated with adversaries including North ...
Read More »Allianz Life says majority of customers’ data stolen; FBI notified, ETCISO
Allianz Life says majority of customers’ data stolen; FBI notified, ETCISO Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America has suffered a major hacker attack affecting millions of customers. A “malicious threat actor” gained access to a third-party, cloud-based system used by Allianz and obtained personally identifiable data related to the majority of customers as well as financial professionals and some ...
Read More »Elon Musk’s Starlink network suffers rare global outage
Elon Musk’s Starlink network suffers rare global outage https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-122898678,imgsize-19360,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/massive-outage-hits-elon-musks-starlink-network-tens-of-thousands-affected.jpg SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked tens of thousands of users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in the U.S. and Europe began experiencing the outage at around 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT), according ...
Read More »U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm
U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/it-worker.jpg Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Insider Threat The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate ...
Read More »What is Tea? The viral women-only app hit by massive data breach; it lets women review men
What is Tea? The viral women-only app hit by massive data breach; it lets women review men https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-122916578,imgsize-810146,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/what-is-tea-the-viral-women-only-app-hit-by-massive-data-breach-it-lets-women-review-men.jpg Tea, an app made to help women share information about men they date, has been breached. The company confirmed on Friday that thousands of user images were exposed online. Tea said around 72,000 images were leaked. This includes 13,000 images of selfies ...
Read More »Tanin Chakraborty, Biocon Biologics, ETCISO
Tanin Chakraborty, Biocon Biologics, ETCISO India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act marks a shift in how enterprises must think about privacy, not merely as a compliance box to tick, but as a strategic opportunity to build trust, resilience, and competitive edge in a data-driven economy. In a recent conversation with ETCISO DeepTalks, Tanin Chakraborty, Senior Director & Global Data ...
Read More »Microsoft warns of ransomware surge in SharePoint server attacks linked to Chinese hackers
Microsoft warns of ransomware surge in SharePoint server attacks linked to Chinese hackers https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-122874693,imgsize-22446,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/microsoft-warns-of-ransomware-surge-in-sharepoint-server-attacks-linked-to-chinese-hackers.jpg Microsoft has issued a warring to organisations that are using on-premises SharePoint servers. The tech giant has confirmed that the hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in its on on-premises SharePoint servers to deploy ransomware. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team has identified a specific actor, designated Storm-2603, as ...
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