According to official sources, there have been instructions from the Union Health Ministry for Safdarjung and Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospitals on steps to be taken to enhance cyber security.

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) at AIIMS Delhi on Wednesday said that a ransomware attack affected the hospital server due to which day-to-day activities including OPD registrations and blood sample reports remained halted.

The police have planned awareness campaigns focusing on topics like multi-factor authentication, strong passwords, software updates, identifying online fraudsters, preventing financial fraud, and safe use of social media.

While investigating two cases lodged at a police station in Ghatkopar along the eastern suburbs, the Mumbai Police’s cyber sleuths traced the suspects online to a location that had not popped up on their radar before — Ernakulam in Kerala.

Some miscreants hacked into the website of the Rotary India club and sent messages to its members saying they are in possession of their personal data and will sell them for Rs 20,000.

Over 50 cases have been reported this year where Delhi-based fraudsters were caught posing as directors or chiefs of agencies and cheating senior citizens/government officers under the guise of buying gift cards and converting them to cryptocurrency.

True random number generator (TRNG), can improve data encryption and provide improved security for sensitive digital data such as credit card details, passwords and other personal information.

Despite growing industry concerns, India will not change upcoming cybersecurity rules that force social media, technology companies, and cloud service providers to report data breaches swiftly.

Examining the trend before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it was found that cyberattacks from Chinese IP addresses jumped by 116 percent on NATO countries and 72 percent worldwide last week, in comparison to the figure before the conflict.

Microsoft and Cisco published advisories about the flaw, and developers released a fix late last week. But a solution depends on thousands of companies putting the fix in place before it is exploited.