Category: information security
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Expansion of AI technology and IoT has altered the course of technological invasion throughout the world. The societal structure all total also changed with the invasion of internet. But with the invasion of internet the pattern of cyber crime is also changing a lot. In one side, when the internet world is getting secure and more users engaging, on the other ways, many ways are there to make use of the loopholes in the security.
Read More – https://cyberrootriskadvisory.substack.com/p/ai-and-iot-a-new-era-of-cybercrimes
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Cyberattacks are evolving day by day and producing danger to organizations worldwide. Global cyber threat is increasing with a rising number of data breach every year.
The International Data Corporation predicts that worldwide spending on cyber-security solutions will reach a massive $133.7 billion by 2022.
Big organizations with user data are most appealing to cybercriminals. Most common attack organizations are facing – ransomware attack. Ransomware is a malware that locks user data so that they cannot access files, database or applications. A ransom is then demanded in return of provide access.
Ransomware is a growing cyber threat, making billions of dollars for cybercriminals and inflicting significant damage and expenses for businesses and governmental organizations. Early ransomware was simple construct and easy to overcome but today new variants are more powerful and posing new threats to businesses.
The biggest ransomware attack till the date is, WannaCry also known as WannaCrypt and Wcry – caused chaos across the globe with more than 300,000 victims in over 150 countries in an attack that started on Friday 12 May 2017.
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CERT-In (India Computer Emergency Response Team) is the national incident response centre for major computer security incidents.
Primary role of CERT-In is to raise security awareness among Indian cyber community. CERT-In provide technical assistance and advice to Indian cyber community to help them recover from cyber security incidents.
CERT-In follow the functions like :
- Collect, analyze and share cyber incident information
- Issue guidelines on prevention of cyber incidents
- Create alerts on cybersecurity incidents
On a regular basis, CERT-In advises businesses and customers to safeguard their data. CERT-In also provide 24×7 incident response help desk in case organization face cyber attack, a data breach or any kind of hack .
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A newly discovered Android Trojan is abusing Telegram’s Bot API to communicate with the command and control (C&C) server and to exfiltrate data.
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CR Risk Advisory Wishing You A Very Happy New Year.