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Why govt banned VLC media player and is there link to Chinese hackers?

The website stopped functioning a few months back but came to user's notice very late

Apart from market malaise, crypto also facing a number of security risks

North Korea's hackers have been become increasingly sophisticated over the past decade, managing to steal an estimated $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency to date

Russian cyber spying targets 42 Ukraine allies amid war: Microsoft report

Coinciding with unrelenting cyberattacks against Ukraine, state-backed Russian hackers have engaged in strategic espionage against governments, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries

Ransomware attacks rise but reseachers prove hackers aren't all genuises

But what hackers don't bet on is savvy cybersecurity professionals coming across rookie mistakes in the malware code that lets them reverse the encryption without paying a dime to the assailant

Hackers steal Rs 7.3 cr in 831 transactions over three months from Razorpay

Fraudsters were using the browser to tamper with authorisation data on some merchant sites that were using an older version of Razorpay's integration

Hackers, fraudulent customers stole Rs 7.38 cr, complaint lodged: Razorpay

Hackers and fraudulent customers have stolen Rs 7.38 crore by tampering and manipulating the authorisation process of Razorpay

Russian cyber attacks aimed at collecting data from Ukraine: Dossiers

The hacks, paired with prewar data theft, likely armed Russia with extensive details on much of Ukraine's population, cybersecurity and military intelligence analysts say

Chinese state-sponsored hackers target Indian power grid assets in Ladakh

Chinese state-sponsored hackers had targeted India's power grids in Ladakh possibly for information on India's critical infrastructure or to prepare for sabotage in the future.

Russian invasion driving more disinformation online, says Meta

Hackers aligned with Russia broke into social media accounts of Ukrainian military officers and were uploading videos of surrendering Ukrainian soldiers when plot was disrupted, says a Meta report

Cloud communications firm Zoom pays over $1.8 mn to bounty hunters in 2021

In 2021, Zoom also recruited over 800 security researchers on the HackerOne platform.

Hackers steal over $600 mn in one of the major crypto heists

Hackers stole about $600 million from a blockchain network connected to the popular Axie Infinity online game in one of the biggest crypto attacks to date

FBI warns of growing Russian hacker interest in US energy companies

The FBI is warning that it has seen increased interest by Russian hackers in energy companies since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine

Is India prepared to protect itself from cyber-attacks?

In the winter of 2015, Russian hackers allegedly breached the power grid and plunged parts of Ukraine into darkness. Is India prepared to safeguard its critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks?

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with Pegasus spyware, report finds

Salvadoran journalists' phones hacked with Pegasus spyware, report finds

Teen hacker claims ability to control 25 Teslas in 13 nations

The teenager didn't reveal the exact details of the software vulnerability, but said it wasn't within Tesla's software or infrastructure

China, Iran, N Korea and Turkey exploiting software flaw: Microsoft

Microsoft has warned that the hackers linked with the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have moved to exploit a critical flaw in software used by big tech firms around the world.

Microsoft aims to skill 100,000 Indians in cybersecurity by 2022

The company said that the programme is designed to give learners hands-on experience in the fundamentals of security, compliance and identity

United Nations' computer networks breached by hackers earlier this year

The hackers' method for gaining access to the UN network appears to be unsophisticated: They likely got in using the stolen username and password of a UN employee purchased off the dark web

Warding off hackers: Bug bounty hunters working to keep firms cyber secure

Bug bounty hunters are certified cybersecurity professionals or security researchers, who crawl the web, scanning the systems for gaps through which hackers can sneak in and alert the companies

Russian hacker targets Apple in $50 million ransomware attack: Details here

Russia-based hackers have hit Apple in a $50 million ransomware attack via a Taiwan-based company that manufactures MacBooks and other products for the Cupertino-based iPhone maker, the media reported