Cyberthreat

Russian hacker group 'Fancy Bears' hacked and published emails regarding the 2018 Winter Olympics

Hackers, reported to be associated with the Russian government, were calling themselves "Fancy Bears" , a trolling reference to the Games' mascots.

FBI Director terms the inability to access data from encrypted electronic devices as an 'urgent public safety issue'

The FBI was unable to access data from nearly 7,800 devices with technical tools despite possessing proper legal authority to pry them open

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urges police forces to focus on cybersecurity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also spoke about the importance of the social media and about greater information sharing on illicit financial dealings.

Researchers claim that North Korea has netted millions in virtual currency by staging multiple cyberattacks

North Korea’s government-backed hackers have been blamed for a rising number of cyberattacks, including the so-called WannaCry cyberattack.

South Korean bitcoin exchange Youbit suffers a hack for the second time in a year

Security researchers claim North Korea-based advanced persistent threat groups are increasingly attacking financial institutions and Bitcoin exchanges.

West Bengal is planning to introduce blockchain technology to protect documents from cyberattack

The blockchain is an online ledger of digitally recorded transactions which is encrypted in the form of blocks.

Digitisation has made services accessible but it has exposed them to cyberthreats also: Ravi Shankar Prasad, IT Minister

IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad was speaking at the inauguration of the "NIC-CERT", a setup of National Informatics Centre.

45 percent of industrial companies are not adopting reliable cybersecurity measures to protect data: Report

It added that although many companies are conducting regular risk assessments, 20 percent are not doing them at all.

Chinese APT groups to shift focus on India in 2018 and threaten cybersecurity: Report

Hacker groups backed by nation-states are termed as APTs. The changing geopolitical situation in the Asia-Pacific region will give way to such threats.

Worldwide, organisations will spend $96.3 billion on cybersecurity in 2018: Report

More than 60 percent of organisations globally will invest in multiple data security tools by 2020, up from 35 percent today, it added.