With 332 victims, the Clop ransomware group was the most notorious in February 2025.Before releasing data that it claims to have hacked, the Russian ransomware group Clop is infamous for demanding multimillion-dollar payments from its victims.
Types of cyber crime:Identity fraud is when someone uses and steals personal information. Theft of credit card information or financial data theft and selling. Cyberextortion is an illegal method of demanding money to prevent a threatened attack.
Phishing websites are frequently created by cybercriminals to seem a lot like real bank websites. They then circulate these fake links using SMS, social media, email, and SMS. Never click on links that you are unfamiliar with or unvarified.
ফিশিং ওয়েবসাইটগুলি প্রায়শই সাইবার অপরাধীদের দ্বারা তৈরি করা হয় যাতে অনেকটা বাস্তব ব্যাঙ্কের ওয়েবসাইটের মতো দেখা যায়। তারপরে তারা এসএমএস, সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া, ইমেল এবং এসএমএস ব্যবহার করে এই জাল লিঙ্কগুলিকে প্রচার করে। আপনি যে লিঙ্কগুলি অপরিচিত বা স্বল্প পরিচিত সেই লিঙ্কগুলিতে কখনই ক্লিক করবেন না।
Sevinc Vaqifqizi, an Azerbaijani journalist who works for Meydan TV, a Berlin-based independent news outlet, was one of the people whose phone number was discovered to be infected with the NSO Group’s Pegasus malware. A forensic study of her phone revealed it had been tapped since 2019
Human rights and media rights organisations have voiced outrage over reports that 180 journalists throughout the world were subjected to military-grade Israeli spyware spying. Cindy Saine, VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, reports on a growing controversy that has included some world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron also targeted
Beijing has refuted claims that it was behind a significant hack against Microsoft Exchange, a widely used email network. NATO, the European Union, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand joined the US in accusing Chinese state-sponsored entities of “malicious cyber activities” earlier this week
According to Freedom House,governments in various countries are rapidly investing in sophisticated technologies to track their citizens’ social media use. Previously the domain of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, this sort of mass surveillance has spread to a variety of countries, ranging from big authoritarian powers to smaller or poorer ones hoping to seek down dissidents and persecuted minorities
“As breakthroughs in digital technology continue to alter human existence, we must be vigilant in our awareness of malicious use of such technologies that could jeopardise the security of future generations,” UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said
The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit