Nair previously worked at TechCircle, IDG, Times Group and other publications, where he reported on developments in enterprise technology, digital transformation and other issues.
Sunder Krishnan, chief risk officer at Reliance Nippon Life Insurance Co., a joint venture of Reliance Capital and Nippon Life, discusses risk management approaches; using PAM, data encryption and other processes to safeguard customer data; and investing in behavioral systems to secure data.
Investment platform Cash App, a subsidiary of U.S.-based payments company Block, says it has been breached. The incident happened last year when a former employee downloaded reports containing Cash App U.S. customer information, including full names, brokerage account numbers and portfolio values.
The Justice Department has announced that it has successfully disrupted "Cyclops Blink," a botnet controlled by the Russia-linked threat actor Sandworm, aka Voodoo Bear. The court-authorized operation was conducted in March and removed the botnet from thousands of infected devices worldwide.
Chinese state-backed threat actor Cicada, aka APT10, is attacking global organizations in what appears to be a monthslong espionage campaign. On its radar are government, legal, religious and nongovernmental organizations in Europe, Asia and North America, the Symantec Threat Hunter team says.
A new ongoing malware campaign is currently being conducted in the wild, targeting unpatched TOTOLINK routers. By leveraging a newly released exploit code, threat actors can use this variant of the Mirai botnet, called Beastmode, to potentially infect vulnerable devices.
German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex, which develops, manufactures and distributes wind power systems across the world, has switched off its IT systems in multiple locations after a reported cybersecurity incident. It says the shutdown may affect customers, employees and other stakeholders.
Researchers from Malwarebytes have found that cyberespionage actor UAC-0056, also known as SaintBear, UNC2589 and TA471, is now using a macro-embedded Excel document to target several entities in Ukraine, including ICTV, a private TV channel.
North Korean advanced persistent threat group Lazarus has emerged with a fresh spear-phishing campaign that uses a Trojanized DeFi application containing a legitimate program called DeFi Wallet that saves and manages a cryptocurrency wallet, but also implants a malicious file when executed.
Researchers have observed a growing number of threat actors using the Russia-Ukraine war as a lure in phishing and malware campaigns to target the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Center of Excellence, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group.
Hackers have allegedly managed to breach the infrastructure belonging to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, or Rosaviatsiya, and wiped out its entire database and files consisting of 65TB of data, including documents, files, aircraft registration data and emails from the servers.
Europol on Tuesday announced the arrest of more than 100 individuals who were detained for their suspected roles in an international call center scam. The suspects arrested are believed to have turned an illegal profit of over 3 million euros per month with this scam.
The U.S. FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau voted unanimously to ban Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas) Corp., and China Mobile International USA Inc., saying they pose a national security threat. And bug bounty platform HackerOne also suspended Kaspersky.
An Estonian national accused of causing more than $53 million in ransomware losses has been sentenced to U.S. federal prison for furthering and facilitating computer intrusions, the movement of fraudulently obtained goods and funds, and the monetization of stolen financial account information.
Researchers have uncovered a full-time initial access broker group that serves both Conti and Diavol ransomware groups. Google's Threat Analysis Group - TAG - observed this financially motivated threat actor, dubbed Exotic Lily, exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft MSHTML tracked as CVE-2021-40444.
Cybersecurity company NortonLifeLock's $8.6 billion plan to purchase rival Avast has hit a snag. On Thursday, the U.K.'s regulatory body expressed anti-competition concerns about the proposed deal. The Competition and Markets Authority has given the firms five days to provide a "clear-cut solution."
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