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More dispersed, ransomware gangs are more difficult to track down, and they frequently combine ideological goals with financially driven attacks.Others use the pretense of hacktivism to target corporations and governments in order to make political statements as well as demand ransom.
After the terror attack in Pahalgam, Maharashtra Cyber has identified that seven Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups were behind more than 15 lakh cyberattacks against vital infrastructure websites throughout India.Only 150 attacks were successful out of them, officials reported on Monday.
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