Tag: Cyber Crime & Security

In Context  Cryptojacking’ attacks on computer systems have gone up by 30% to 66.7 million in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of last year. What is Cryptojacking ? It is a cyber attack wherein a computing device is hijacked and controlled by the attacker, and its resources are used to […]

In News Recently, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has declared IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and UPI managing entity NPCI as ‘critical information infrastructure (CII)’. Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) Definition:  The Information Technology Act of 2000 defines “Critical Information Infrastructure” as a “computer resource, the incapacitation or destruction of which […]

In News Recently, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines for cyber incidents. New Guidelines Mandatory: The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has mandated that: All cybersecurity incidents must be informed to it by the respective companies within six hours of either being made aware of the incident or becoming […]

In Context  Indian organisations witnessed a 218% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, making the nation the tenth most targeted country globally and second after Australia in the Asia-Pacific region. Amid a surge in cyberattacks on India’s networks, Centre is yet to implement the National Cyber Security Strategy which has been in the works since […]

In News  A new vulnerability named Log4 Shell is being touted as one of the worst cybersecurity flaws to have been discovered.  About Log4j vulnerability The vulnerability is dubbed Log4 Shell and is officially CVE-2021-44228. CVE number is the unique number given to each vulnerability discovered across the world). It is based on an open-source […]

In Context Recently, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reported that almost 26,000 Indian websites have been hacked into in the 10-month period ended October. About There have been attempts from time to time to launch cyberattacks on Indian cyberspace. The attackers are compromising computer systems located in different parts of the world and use masquerading […]

In News  The National e-Governance Division under the Ministry of Electronics and IT is conducting a six-day Deep Dive Training program for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and frontline IT officials. About  The Deep Dive Training program under the Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative is aimed to prepare the CISOs and frontline IT officials to face […]