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Amnesty International Canada says it was target of a China-sponsored hack

The Canadian branch of Amnesty International said Monday it was the target of a cyber attack sponsored by China. The human rights organization said it first detected the breach on October 5, and hired forensic investigators and cybersecurity experts to investigate. Ketty Nivyabandi, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, said the searches in their systems were specifically and solely related to China and Hong Kong, as well as a few prominent Chinese activists. The hack left the organization offline for nearly three weeks. US cybersecurity firm Secureworks said a threat group sponsored or tasked by the Chinese state was likely behind the attack because there was no attempt to monetize the access, the nature of the searches, the level of sophistication and the use of specific tools which are distinctive of China-sponsored actors. Nivyabandi encouraged activists and journalists to update their cybersecurity protocols in light of it. "As an organization advocating for huma

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Ransomware attack on AIIMS a conspiracy, planned by forces: Chandrasekhar

The ransomware attack on the servers of AIIMS Delhi is a conspiracy and planned by forces that are significant, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The servers of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have been out of order for the 10th consecutive day due to the ransomware attack. "It is clearly a conspiracy and it has been planned by forces that are pretty significant. It is a sophisticated ransomware attack. We will wait for the outcome of CERTin and NIA (National Investigation Agency) before we come to conclusion on who is behind the ransomware attack," Chandrasekhar said. In a ransomware attack, cybercriminals lock access to data or a device and promise to unlock it after they are paid the desired ransom. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Delhi cybercrime special cell, Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of

AIIMS hacking: Chinese involvement suspected; 4 more servers were on target

Chinese involvement is suspected in the hacking of the server of All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, a top source said on Friday, adding that four more servers were on the hackers' target

Hackers now selling 150k patients' data of TN hospital on Dark Web: Report

The cyber attack came on the heels of the massive AIIMS ransomware attack that has crippled nation's premier healthcare institution for days

AIIMS-Delhi working on cyber security policy as servers remain down

The AIIMS, Delhi is working on devising a cyber security policy for the hospital and other wings with guidance from investigating agencies, official sources said on Thursday, even as its servers remained down for the ninth day following a ransomware attack. Recommendations have been sought from the investigating agencies, they said. Besides, a chief information security officer (CISO) is being appointed on an ad hoc basis for emergency cyber security measures to be taken at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here to restart the eHospital services and prevent such incidents in the future. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Delhi cybercrime special cell, Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, Intelligence Bureau, Central Bureau of Investigation, National Forensic Sciences University, National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre, and National Investigation Agency, etc. are ...

AIIMS cyber attack: Long hospital queues as e-appointment system still shut

There has been a 20 per cent increase in the number of walk-in OPD patients at the AIIMS here leading to long queues as the premier hospital's online appointment system remained shut for the eighth consecutive day on Wednesday following a cyber attack. Officials said the hospital authorities have deployed additional staff to manage the rush of patients. All hospital services, including outpatient and in-patient departments and laboratories, continue to run on manual mode. Besides the outpatient department (OPD), long queues were witnessed outside diagnostic centres and billing counters at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as the hospital authorities along with other agencies struggled to restore the servers. The AIIMS authorities said Tuesday that the e-Hospital data has been restored on the servers. They said the network is being sanitised before the services can be restored. The process is taking some time due to the volume of data and the large number of ...

CDSL malware attack hits broking ops; Sebi, Cert-in to probe incident

Brokering industry players said the disruption caused by the malware attack could have been more adverse if not for the weekend

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Using tech to crack down on insider trading: Sebi's Madhabi Puri Buch

Regulator will by next year have a system enabling data storage of trades between exchanges, ensuring work is not affected in a cyberattack

Tata Power hit by cyber attack, says critical systems functioning

The company did not divulge which systems were impacted

Cyber attack hits IT systems of Tata Power, restoration underway

Tata Power on Friday said that a cyber attack has hit its Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and affected its systems. Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems, a BSE filing said. The company has taken steps to retrieve and restore the systems, it informed. All critical operational systems are functioning; however, as a measure of abundant precaution, restricted access and preventive checks have been put in place for employee and customer facing portals and touch points, it added.

Australia updates telecom law to protect customers' data after Optus hack

The Australian government announced changes Thursday to its telecommunications law to protect vulnerable customers after personal details were stolen in a major cyberattack on the nation's second-largest wireless carrier. The changes to Telecommunications Regulations allow Optus and other providers to better coordinate with financial institutions and governments to detect and mitigate the risk of cybersecurity incidents, fraud, scams and other malicious cyber activities, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in a joint statement. What this is all about is to try and reduce the impact of this data breach on Optus customers and to enable financial institutions to implement enhanced safeguards and monitoring, Rowland told reporters. More than one in three Australians had personal data stolen when Optus lost the records of 9.8 million current and former customers including passport, driver's license and national health care identification numbers in a

Hackers leak 500 GB of data stolen during Los Angeles ransomware attack

Data that was stolen during a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been made public by hackers, media reports said

Ransomware cyber attacks spike to over 1.2 mn per month in H12022

The volume of ransomware threats detected spiked to more than 1.2 million per month between the January-June period, a report revealed

Google blocks world's largest-ever web distributed DDoS cyber attack

Google has blocked the largest-ever web distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber attack on a customer that peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS).

Why govt banned VLC media player and is there link to Chinese hackers?

The website stopped functioning a few months back but came to user's notice very late

China fumes as Pelosi visits Taiwan: What makes the island so important?

Taiwan is among the largest manufacturers of crucial chips and houses the world's largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)

Paytm says data 'safe' after report of cyber breach affecting 3.4 mn users

After cyber-security company Firefox Monitor claimed that Paytm suffered a massive data breach two years back that may have exposed data of over 3.4 million users, Paytm said that all data is 'secure'

Russian cyber soldiers launch disinformation campaign to target leaders: UK

Russian cyber soldiers have launched a new offensive against foreign leaders, targeting social media platforms with a large-scale disinformation campaign that seeks to legitimise the Ukraine invasion