Data theft

Image: Adobe/Sundry Photography As senior director and global head of the office of the chief information security officer (CISO) at Google Cloud, Nick Godfrey oversees educating employees on cybersecurity as well as handling threat detection and mitigation. We conducted an interview with Godfrey via video call about how CISOs and other tech-focused business leaders can allocate their finite resources, getting buy-in on security from other stakeholders, and the new challenges and opportunities introduced by…

Cybercrime and data theft have become a common problem for organizations and the general public. Personal and sensitive data is being shared all over the internet by hackers without anyone's knowledge and new data breaches and invasions of privacy are recorded virtually on a daily basis. While organizations are taking strong cybersecurity measures, it is still not enough to protect people from data breaches. And things are getting worse. In the latest cybercrime, it has now been revealed that 26 billion records, which is…

State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has allegedly suffered a data breach as a threat actor has claimed to have “critical information” pertaining to the company’s users, ET has learnt.The threat actor using the alias ‘Perell’ has disclosed a “sample dataset” on a dark web forum, including sensitive details of fibre and landline users of BSNL. The dataset contains about 32,000 lines of data and the threat actor claimed that the total number of lines across all databases amounts to approximately over…

Know what is WormGPT, the malicious ChatGPT alternative for cyberattacks and phishing.When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, the AI-powered language model, the world was captivated by its capabilities in answering queries and performing tasks that once took days to complete, such as writing tasks, analyzing datasets, and coding. However, as ChatGPT gained popularity, competitors like Google's Bard and Microsoft's Bing AI emerged with their own AI-powered tools offering similar features.Recently, a new AI tool named WormGPT has…

Image Source : GOOGLE PLAY STORE Google Play Apps with 1.5 mn installs were found sending sensitive data to China Malicious file management applications posing as legitimate apps have been discovered on the Google Play Store, collectively accumulating over 1.5 million downloads. Cybersecurity firm Pradeo identified two spyware apps from the same developer that exhibited…

Western Digital, a global data storage technology and solutions provider, has announced that it suffered a network security breach that occurred on March 26, 2023. The company confirmed through a press release published on its website that an unauthorised third party gained access to some of its systems. “On March 26, 2023, we identified a network security incident where an unauthorised third party gained access to a number of the Company’s systems,” it said in the press statement. ALSO READ l Mac users alert! Hackers…

Australian digital payments and lending firm Latitude Holdings said it has determined that 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver licence numbers were stolen in a large-scale information theft on March 16. Apart from the 7.9 million driver licence numbers stolen, the fintech firm also identified about 53,000 passport numbers were stolen and less than 100 customers had a monthly financial statement stolen. Several Australian firms have reported cyberattacks over the past few months, and experts say this is due to…