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Topic: Cyberattack

Venezuela’s oil industry has been running day-to-day ops on phone calls & WhatsApp

A 15 December cyber attack shut down PDVSA’s system, leaving the company to run its business outside its own technological networks.

Stuxnet to WannaCry—5 notorious cyberattacks that targeted governments

An estimated 270,000 payroll records belonging to the UK’s armed forces were found to have been exposed in a data breach.

WazirX, Liminal Custody trade blame after crypto platform loses Rs 2,000 crore in cyber attack

Wallet infra provider Liminal Custody claimed none of its wallets hosted on WazirX fell prey to attack, while latter said wallet operated jointly with Liminal Custody was infiltrated.

Taiwan faces 5 million cyberattacks a day. Can it keep up with China’s sophisticated tactics?

Frontinet, a US-based cybersecurity firm, has found that Taiwan experienced just over half of the billions of malware attacks detected in the Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2023.

As Apple alerts row heats up, IT minister Vaishnaw says govt looking into Oppn leaders’ claims

BJP says Apple should clarify about the alerts it has sent out to Opposition leaders, and rejected snooping allegations against the government as 'baseless and false'.

Ukraine blames Russia for most of over 2,000 cyberattacks in 2022

Senior Ukrainian official, Yuriy Schygol, who blamed the attacks on Russia, was speaking at a news conference that he said was itself delayed because of a cyberattack.

China cyberwar: Beijing’s dominance in IoT & smart technology & vulnerabilities for India

For India, the growing ubiquity of China-dependent IoT and smart technologies holds ramifications in both critical infrastructure and military domains.

Was AIIMS cyberattack inevitable? Doctors flagged risks soon after hospital went digital in 2016

Documents accessed by ThePrint show that the hospital’s administration had raised concerns to the government about data and systems safety soon after digitization.

Cybersecurity firm ‘sniffed out’ hacked Tiruppur hospital data on dark web. Now, it’s a ‘victim’ too

Bengaluru-based CloudSEK claimed last week that patient data from Sree Saran Medical Centre was being sold online. This week, the firm’s customer names & purchase orders got leaked.

Taiwan learnt to deal with China’s cyberattacks. India can take tips

Gone are the days when China’s cyber espionage campaigns were targeted at Tibetans in Dharamsala. We now live in a world where Chinese threats target India’s critical infrastructure.

On Camera

Controversial dog-walker IAS Sanjeev Khirwar is back in Delhi. What happened to his wife?

In 2022, athletes claimed they were asked to wind up training early at Thyagraj Stadium so that the IAS couple could walk their dog. Then came the memes and public outrage.

IndiGo profit plunges 78% as Dec meltdown with 3k flight cancellations takes a toll

Net income for InterGlobe Aviation Ltd slipped 78 percent to Rs 5.5 billion for the three months ended Dec 31 compared with the year-ago period.

Rafale saga: 25 yrs of detours, deadlocks & political hesitation. Now IAF getting what it always wanted

Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance. 

Pakistan se azaadi. Grow up India, stop giving it prime real estate in your psyche

Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.