The e-commerce arm of payment giant Paytm has suffered a data breach according to US-based cyber research firm Cyble, after a hacker group targeted the company’s PayTM Mall database.

Facebook has filed lawsuits against a UK-based app developer for illegally harvesting the data of its users and another developer in the US for operating a fake engagement service on Instagram.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) detections increased by 18 percent from the second half of 2019, in part due to scammers trying to capitalize on home workers being more exposed to social engineering.

Cybersecurity firm Seqrite said ransomware attacks doubled year-on-year in first quarter of this financial year to 400,000, largely due to the cybersecurity challenges amid a surge in remote working.

A key aspect of making security a collective responsibility is that developers are empowered to continually check for vulnerabilities as part of the development and testing phase.

The rapid technology shifts paired with new ways of accessing data creates more opportunities for security incidents if companies don’t ensure the right tools and policies are in place.

Nearly 66 percent of Indian organizations have had at least one data breach or cybersecurity incident since shifting to a remote working model during the pandemic, as per a Barracuda Networks survey.

The 3-2-1 rule recommends that there should be at least three copies of important data, on at least two different types of media, with at least one of these copies being off-site.

The "Dharma" ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attacks are troubling small and mid-sized businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. 85 percent of such attacks are focusing on exposed access tools like RDP.

The attackers had compromised Windows Active Directory Server of the NHAI network and subsequently compromised internal systems, mail server, and anti-virus server.