A passenger flying on India's IndiGo airline said that he hacked the airline's website after he lost his baggage. Nandan Kumar, the passenger, took to Twitter and described the sequence of events tagging IndiGo.

IndiGo website 'hacked' by passenger after losing baggage

Apple Inc and Meta provided their customer data to hackers who pretended to be enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of this matter, reported news agency AFP on Wednesday (March 30) citing a company source.

Apple and Meta give user data to hackers who pretended to be enforcement officials: Report

When the United States barred Americans from doing business with Russian banks, oil and gas developers and other companies in 2014, after the country’s invasion of Crimea, the hit to Russia’s economy was swift and immense.

Russia could use cryptocurrency to blunt the force of US sanctions

Hackers have stolen cryptocurrency worth more than $320 million from a decentralised finance platform, the fourth-largest crypto heist on record and the latest to shake the fast-growing DeFi sector.

Crypto platform Wormhole hit by $320 million hack

Iranian state broadcaster was hacked on Thursday. Dissents hijacked the broadcast - and called for the death of Iran's Supreme Leader. Tehran is blaming an old enemy for the hack. Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: Iran State TV hacked, broadcast calls for Khamenei's death

Several channels of Iran’s state television were hacked allegedly by exiled dissident groups who showed graphic images calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

Watch | Iranian state television hacked, ‘death to Khamenei’ chant flashed for several seconds

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid distanced the government from the NSO Group, a firm blacklisted this week by the United States over alleged misuse of its phone-hacking spyware.

Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid distances government from blacklisted NSO Group

A group of hackers have leaked personal information, appointment details and test results of nearly 290,000 patients of Israel's Machon Mor medical institute. Black Shadow, a hacker group linked to Iran, uploaded the directory of patients of an Israeli hospital on Tuesday night.

Israel: Iran-based hacker group leaks private information of 290,000 patients

After the Biden administration accused China of cyberattack against Microsoft, the Chinese foreign ministry hit back saying the allegations were "unreasonable criticism" and were "fabricated".

US move fabricated out of nothing, unreasonable criticism, says China on Microsoft hacking case

Microsoft believes malware used to infect PCs running its Windows operating system was created by an Israeli organisation. Microsoft is taking a new effort to reduce internet security issues.

Israeli company is behind malware that affected Windows PCs: Microsoft

Facebook said on Thursday that it disrupted Iran-based spying operation that targetted aerospace and defence workers in the US and Europe. As per head of cyber espionage investigations Mike Dvilyanski, fake accounts posing as company job recruiters or employees were used to dupe targets.

Iran-based spies targetted US, European defence workers, says Facebook

Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers.

Microsoft says new breach discovered in probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers

Italy has created a cybersecurity agency. The step has come after the country's Prime Minister Mario Draghi warned that Europe needed to protect itself from Russian interference.

Italy forms cybersecurity agency to counter Russian 'interference'

The hackers that paralysed Colonial Pipeline operations have stolen a large amount of data, reported Bloomberg News citing people familiar with the matter. The attackers, part of a cybercrime group called DarkSide and have been reported to have stolen 100 GB data in just two hours on Thursday (May 6).

Colonial Pipeline hackers stole large amount of data, says report

The Washington DC police department's server has been hacked, US media quoted it as saying, in an attack that news agency AP reported had been claimed by a Russian-speaking ransomware group.

Washington DC police server hacked, Russian-speaking group claims responsibility: Reports

Security threats are not limited to land and sea borders. Now, the biggest threats loom on the digital world. India has no data security law and a big hacking attack just took place.

Domino's Pizza hack in India: What details were stolen and what happens next

Japan police are investigating cyberattacks on about 200 Japanese companies and research organisations, including the country’s space agency JAXA. Investigators suspect that a group of hackers backed by the Chinese military is behind the cyberattack.

Chinese military-backed hackers likely behind Japan cyberattacks

A US court has authorised Federal Bureau of Investigation to directly investigate backdoors into hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers across the US. Four months ago, hackers had used vulnerabilities in the server to attack multiple networks.

FBI to remove backdoors from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers, in a first for federal agency

A new attack is affecting SMS messaging with the users never finding out. The attack, uncovered by Motherboard, uses text-messaging management services to redirect messages to hackers from the user.

Telecom companies may be redirecting your SMSs to hackers for less than $16!

The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States — and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them — are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyber threats.

White House weighs new cybersecurity approach after failure to detect hacks

A House Judiciary panel focused on antitrust will hear from three witnesses on Friday who represent a range of news organizations with concerns about how big tech platforms like Facebook and Alphabet`s Google increasingly dominate their industry.

US hearing on tech dominance of news outlets will include Microsoft

A US official said that President Joe Biden`s administration is expected to put together a task force to deal with major cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China as relations between the two -- Washington and Beijing -- continues to spiral downwards.

Biden admin to form task force to deal with Microsoft hack linked to China

Over 20,000 United States organisations have been compromised in the aftermath of an attack on Microsoft's email software. According to media reports, the hack has affected more than the download from SolarWinds Corp, which witnessed a massive hack in December 2020.

Over 20,000 US organisations affected by China's Microsoft hack: Reports

Another attempted breach - allegedly by state-backed Chinese hackers has come to light. A connection was opened by a hacker inside a network system of an Indian port. As of Tuesday, it was still active. WION's Palki Sharma tells you more about the attempted breach.

Gravitas: Chinese hackers are 'actively targeting' an Indian Port

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