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Cyberattack keeps hospitals’ computers offline for weeks
20Aug By adminNo Comments
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Cyberattack keeps hospitals’ computers offline for weeks

[ad_1] Key computer systems at hospitals and clinics in several states have yet to come back online more than two weeks after a cyberattack that forced some emergency room shutdowns and ambulance diversions.Progress is being made “to recover critical systems and restore their integrity,” Prospect Medical Holdings said in a Friday statement. But the company, which runs 16 hospitals and dozens of other medical facilities in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas, could not say when operations might return to normal. “We do not yet have a definitive timeline for how long it will be before all of our systems are restored,” spokeswoman Nina Kruse said in a text message. “The forensic investigation is still underway and we are working closely with law enforcement offici...
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Woman books doctor’s appointment, loses ₹1.5 lakh in online scam; know 5 tips to stay safe
15Jul By adminNo Comments
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Woman books doctor’s appointment, loses ₹1.5 lakh in online scam; know 5 tips to stay safe

[ad_1] In today's digital age, online scams have become increasingly common, causing innocent individuals to fall victim to financial losses. A recent incident in Mumbai highlights the dangers of such scams, as a woman lost ₹1.5 lakh while attempting to book a doctor's appointment.According to the Times of India, the woman, who works at a private company in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), needed to make an appointment with a doctor at a hospital in Chembur. Trusting the information she found online, she dialed the listed number for the hospital, unaware that it was posted by a cyber fraudster with malicious intent. During her call to book the appointment, the woman was skillfully manipulated by the person on the other end, resulting in a significant loss of ₹1.5 lakh, leaving the woman sh...
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National Technology Day: “Trends of increasing cyber attacks”, warns Prof. SK Shukla
11May By adminNo Comments
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National Technology Day: “Trends of increasing cyber attacks”, warns Prof. SK Shukla

[ad_1] Today is the National Technology Day. The day was observed for the first time in 1999 after India conducted a series of five successful nuclear bomb tests (Pokhran - II) in 1998. The move made India the sixth country in the world to successfully test nuclear weapons. While it was a breakthrough moment for us in terms of technological advancement, it also came with the burden of being responsible and ethical in terms of its usage. Now, 25 years later, we find ourselves in a similar situation with emerging technologies around artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLM), blockchain technology and more are growing exponentially. With major tech companies doubling down on AI technology and the European Union (EU) working on drafting an AI act to regulate its usage, we ar...
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Four held for online shopping fraud in Delhi
27Apr By adminNo Comments
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Four held for online shopping fraud in Delhi

[ad_1] Delhi Police said on Wednesday they have arrested four persons allegedly involved in online shopping fraud to the tune of ₹8 lakh using an e-commerce platform. Police said the matter came to light after a Shahdara trader registered a complaint with them. The trader had placed an order for a photocopy machine on INDIAMART portal and a person, who introduced himself as Anshul Aggarwal, a sales manager of a firm named Balaji Enterprises, reached out to him assuring he can deliver the machine, police said. Aggarwal asked the trader to transfer an amount of ₹3.21 lakh to his bank account to get the machine but after the payment he stopped taking phone calls from the trader, they said. The accused neither delivered the purchased item nor returned the money, a senior police officer ...
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Beware of Google Ads danger! Bumblebee malware targeting victims
24Apr By adminNo Comments
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Beware of Google Ads danger! Bumblebee malware targeting victims

[ad_1] The most prominent thing you will notice while using a web browser or any application are Google Ads. Now, cybercriminals are using malicious Google Ads or SEO poisoning to spread malware which can lead to financial losses for common users. According to a recent blog post by Secureworks, Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers have observed a malware called Bumblebee, which is being distributed via Trojanized installers for popular softwares like Zoom, Cisco AnyConnect, ChatGPT, and Citrix Workspace.Bumblebee malware is a modular loader, historically distributed primarily through phishing, that has been used to deliver payloads commonly associated with ransomware deployments. Trojanizing installers for software that is particularly topical (e.g., ChatGPT) or software commonly used ...
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Nothing 100 per cent safe on Internet; beware about cyber threats: Uttarakhand DGP
21Apr By adminNo Comments
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Nothing 100 per cent safe on Internet; beware about cyber threats: Uttarakhand DGP

[ad_1] Nothing is 100 per cent safe on the Internet and cybercrime is emerging as the "biggest" threat and challenge for police forces in the country, Uttarakhand police chief Ashok Kumar said here on Thursday.Kumar, a 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was speaking at the IIT-Delhi campus during a panel discussion on the launch of his latest book 'Cyber Encounters: Cops' adventures with online criminals' which he co-authored with O P Manocha, an ex-DRDO scientist. The book offers insights into 12 real cyber crime cases investigated and cracked by the police and the extent of the multi-layered complexities that are part of these online and borderless crimes. "The volume of cyber crime cases is so high and the criminal who is perpetrating is sitting so far away that catching...
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Class 3-pass man held for Rs. 1.68 cr cyber fraud: UP police
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Class 3-pass man held for Rs. 1.68 cr cyber fraud: UP police

[ad_1] A 38-year-old man with formal education till Class 3 has been arrested by Uttar Pradesh's Cyber Crime police over Rs. 1.68 crore fraud with a businessman on the pretext of trade with a Canadian firm, officials said on Thursday.The fraudster used Facebook to network with gullible people associated with pharmaceutical productions and represented himself as a middle-man who lured them with good monetary returns, they said. The accused was arrested from Ballia district by a team of Cyber Crime police station, Noida, which was investigating the case lodged over the complaint of the businessman, who lives in Omaxe NRI City in Greater Noida in February 2021, according to the police. “Accused Durga Prasad Mishra alias Rajeet Mishra, along with his partners, had posed as a middle-man for ...
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Haryana witnesses 5000% jump in cyber crime complaints since 2019
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Haryana witnesses 5000% jump in cyber crime complaints since 2019

[ad_1] Haryana saw a jaw dropping rise of almost 5000 per cent in cyber crime incidents since 2019, registering 66,784 such complaints in 2022, officials said on Thursday.The state in 2019 had logged 1,362 cyber crime complaints, which rocketed by 4,803.40 per cent by the end of 2022, according to the data. In the first three months of 2023 alone 25,659 complaints of cyber crime have been recorded, the officials said. According to the police, the number of complaints have increased because helpline 1930 was operationalised in 2022, making it easy for the people to report.The average monthly receipt of complaints increased from 272 in 2019 to 956 in 2022, 1,313 in 2021, 5,565 in 2022, and 8,553 in the first three months of 2023, they said.To deal with the rising number of complaints rece...
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Two duped of Rs. 57 lakh in online fraud
13Apr By adminNo Comments
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Two duped of Rs. 57 lakh in online fraud

[ad_1] Two persons, including a businessman, were collectively duped of ₹57 lakh in separate cases of online fraud, police said on Wednesday.While in the first case a businessman was allegedly duped of ₹42 lakh by his social media friend over a business proposal, in the second, a woman was duped of ₹15 lakh after she clicked on a link while searching for the customer care number of a courier company, they said. According to the first FIR, a proprietor named Sunil Arora was defrauded of ₹42 lakh by one Shreya Joshi with whom he got in touch on Instagram in December last year. "Shreya Joshi offered me a business proposal for saffron cumin oil and saffron powder supply to her own company in the USA. She asked me to contact Riya Sharma, proprietor of Sharma Product from Mumbai to procur...
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