Arun Kumar

A new report from Reuters suggests that EU officials were allegedly targeted by the NSO group’s Pegasus spyware. The report stated that atleast five individuals were spied upon by unknown entities using the infamous malware. In addition to two unnamed EU officials, the list of victims also include Didier Reynders,a senior Belgian official who has served as the European Justice…

With data breaches and information stealing becoming a prevalent sight in cyberspace, researchers have now warned the looming presence of two info-stealers, namely FFDroider and Lightning Stealer, which are capable of stealing sensitive information while launching further attacks. An official statement released by ZScaler based cybersecurity researchers Avinash Kumar and Niraj Shivtarkar…

On Tuesday, the German federal criminal police department, known as Bundeskriminalamt, announced that they have dismantled servers belonging to the Russia-based darknet market Hydra. Additionally, the forces have also confiscated bitcoin resources worth 25 million euros ($25 million). In the official statement, the authorities revealed that the joint operation that dates back to August 2021…

Lapsus$, an infamous cybercrime gang, had previously breached high-profile companies such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Samsung. Recently they claimed responsibility for the data breach targeting Globant, a Luxembourg-based software service company, thereby announcing their return after a brief ‘vacation’. An message regarding the attack was shared on Lapsus$’ official Telegram…

The establishment of an annual discussion between Singapore and the United States was announced on Tuesday (Mar 29) as part of bolstering cybersecurity cooperation. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is in the United States on a working visit. After attending a meeting in the White House, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and US President Joe Biden released a joint…

Ukrtelecom, Ukraine’s largest fixed-line telecommunications firm, has been targeted by a “powerful” cyberattack. It is considered to be the most lethal cyberattack since the Russian invasion began in February, and it has brought the company’s services across the country to a halt. Ukrtelecom CEO Yuriy Kurmaz said in a statement that a powerful hostile cyber attack was…

On friday (March 25), the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) included Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs, and Chinese communication firms China Telecom (Americas) Corp and China Mobile International USA Inc. to its list of service providers and communications equipment that can potentially threaten US national security. The official advisory released by FCC stated that…

According to Gartner, many of the security concerns that MSEs face are similar to those that larger enterprises face. The rising usage of cloud applications, open-source code, the internet of things (IoT), and cyber-physical systems, for example, has increased attack surfaces. As a result of this, MSE administrators will have to secure a more complicated organizational environment. The…