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Government representatives, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and cybersecurity experts joined the event to discuss emerging cyber threats, regulatory compliance and measures to strengthen cybersecurity preparedness among MSMEs.
The Whitefield CEN police register case over alleged data theft and demand for 30 bitcoins
Tokyo, Oct. 14 (Jiji Press)--IDC Frontier Inc., a cloud service subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications and technology company SoftBank Corp., said Wednesday that no breaches of customer information it stores has been confirmed following unauthorized access last week. IDC Frontier explained that an investigation conducted with an external security firm found no evidence that data had been...
Experts say there is no evidence that Russian trolls have been affected by Ukraine’s Yandex attacks.
C0c0n-2026, the cybersecurity summit concludes in Keralam’s Kochi
Titled The Trojan Project™, India’s first Cyber Trojan Horse, the 25-feet tall statue of a horse, weighing approximately two tonnes, has been created by artist DaVinci Suresh
The machines were exhibited at c0c0n 2026, an annual cybersecurity conference held in Kochi
Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Financial Services Agency on Friday called on financial institutions to review their cybersecurity measures in response to a recent series of customer data breaches caused by unauthorized access. The agency asked financial institutions to examine their response procedures in the event of a cyberattack and take necessary measures promptly if any deficienci...
Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--Two more Japanese firms have disclosed unauthorized access to their systems that led to large-scale breaches of customer data. Bookoff Group Holdings Ltd., a secondhand goods retailer, said Friday that data on up to around 6.43 million customers have been compromised. Daiichikosho Co., a karaoke store chain, said on Thursday that data on about 8.72 million custome...
Rio Times · Europe Intelligence Brief October 8, 2026 — EU ambassadors agreed to add 1,646 Russian individuals and organisations to the sanctions regime; Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham launched a joint partnership targeting sabotage, cyberattacks and other hybrid threats in Berlin; Hungary lifted its objection to technical steps concerning negotiating clusters 2 and 3 in Ukraine’s EU accession process. The post Europe Intelligence Brief — Thursday, October 8, 2026 appeared first on The Rio Times.
Technology can achieve scale only when it gains people's trust, PM Modi said
UPI has become a more trusted and frequently used mode of payment in India; but SPIR 2026 finds a paradox, people who trusted online banking the most and used UPI most often were more likely to have been victims of cybercrime; report shows how fraud networks exploit this trust through deceptive schemes, fake apps and ‘digital arrest’
Tokyo, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)--Japanese police have captured a Russian national believed to be a key member of the "Qilin" international hacker group and extradited him to Germany, investigative sources said Tuesday. Qilin is believed to have carried out ransomware attacks against companies worldwide, causing major damage through data encryption. In 2025, the group claimed responsibility on...
Governments and financial institutions in Southeast Asia urgently need to find a way to safely and quickly share data if they hope to contain a surge in scams, as cybersecurity experts warn that artificial intelligence is enabling criminal operations in the region to expand their reach rapidly. Criminal enterprises stole as much as US$114 billion from victims across the Asia-Pacific in 2025, according to a United Nations report released in July, more than triple the amount from two years...
Osaka, Oct. 6 (Jiji Press)--Osaka Metropolitan University has said that data on at least 130,000 students and teachers may have leaked from the institution due to a system failure caused by a cyberattack. "It is regrettable that we could not prevent the incident," Hiroyuki Sakuragi, president of the university in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, said at a press conference held Monday to ann...
Tokyo, Oct. 4 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese health ministry plans to support medical institutions that introduce cloud-based electronic medical record systems, which manage medical records and other information online using external servers. The ministry will establish a program in the ongoing fiscal year ending next March to certify cloud-based systems with strong cybersecurity measures, and ...
AI giant says it is reviewing report of attempted cyberattack on Canada's national archives agency.
A message claiming that the website was hacked by “Team Blackleets”, along with a slogan hailing Pakistan, was also posted on the website
Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
Mexico data leak: 12.9 million records tied to call centers were offered on Telegram, naming banks and retailers. What was exposed and how to stay safe. The post Mexico Data Leak Probe: 12.9 Million Records Offered for Sale on Telegram appeared first on The Rio Times.
The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. The plan, which Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had originally promised to release by mid-August, comes as the Trump administration has been trying to kickstart efforts to help states protect voting systems. Election officials...
Incident highlights growing concerns about AI's impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts.
The shares of cybersecurity companies have soared in recent months on bets that the threats posed by cutting-edge AI models will be a boon for their businesses. But some of the stocks have run up so much that investors are questioning whether they’ve gone too far.
An OpenAI model hacked an Australian government website earlier this year, gaining unauthorized access to files on a website for reporting healthcare statistics. Bloomberg's Paul Allen shares what we know. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tokyo, Sept. 18 (Jiji Press)--Japan's National Police Agency said Friday that a North Korean hacker group was behind a cyberattack spanning more than 100 countries, including Japan, that led to the theft of cryptocurrency worth about 1.7 billion yen. The North Korean group, called WaterPlum, infected more than 30,000 devices with malware between December last year and July this year, steali...
China’s contributions and leadership were of considerable value to the revision of new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards for artificial intelligence, intelligent transport systems and cybersecurity, according to the global body. The ISO made the comments on Wednesday as it released ISO 9001:2026, which is the first major revision to ISO 9001 – an international benchmark for quality management – in a decade, it added. ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica told the South...
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force said Tuesday that a malware-infected USB memory stick used within the GSDF was brought in by a service member. The GSDF also said it was unable to determine how the USB stick had been obtained. In February last year, the GSDF confirmed that malware was detected on a USB memory stick that had been used at its Middle Army head...