When you think of a school, what comes to mind? A place where children are being nurtured, where laughter fills the halls, and young minds are being shaped for the future, a place they consider a second home.

Bomb threat mails targeting Delhi schools: The rise of cyber terrorism. We must fight back!

Apple users are facing the threat of two scams and are being warned to stay alert. One of them is about the iCloud storage capacity, and the other is their Apple ID being suspended.

Apple users at risk of two major scams. Apple ID suspended is one of them

Threat actors are having a field day as chatbots are allowing them to remove glaring grammatical and language mistakes from their fraudulent emails and texts. European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL) has released an advisory about the criminal use of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs).

Cybercriminals using AI chatbots to write grammatically correct phishing emails, warn experts

Criminal hackers have always used tools that use be used to attack anyone they can. Now it looks like AI and translation programmes are being used by hackers to translate their spam from English to 13 other languages as discussed in SCmedia: “These attacks demonstrate that BEC is a global issue and not just an English-only phenomenon,” said Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security.

AI helps create non-English speaking phishing emails

More than 40 accounts of an Indian firm CyberRoot Risk Advisory were taken down by Meta for providing hacking-for-hire services on its social media platforms. Apart from that, about 900 fake accounts operated from China by an unknown entity on Instagram and Facebook were also removed, Meta said in its Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry released on December 15.

Meta takes down 40 fake accounts of Indian firm, 900 from China for phishing

With the rollout of 5G in some parts of India, scammers have discovered a new technique for duping consumers. Scammers are acting as customer service representatives from Vodafone, Airtel, or Jio, according to a new investigation by Check Point Software, and they are helping unwary clients upgrade their 4G SIMs to 5G.

India: '4G to 5G SIM upgrade' scam, here's everything you need to know

There are various ways in which cybercriminals can rob people. Among them, and the most prominent one, is phishing emails. These mails are designed to trap innocent and gullible victims by enticing them with fake offers or a cash rewards or sleazy advertisements.

What is phishing and how do cyberthugs con gullible victims?

Microsoft Corp has said that a group behind the SolarWinds cyber attack identified late last year is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organisations.

Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers again targetting government agencies with phishing

South Korea said on Sunday it will strengthen its monitoring system against cryptocurrency-related phishing websites by working with the National Police Agency amid recent surges in prices of virtual money.

South Korea to clamp down on cryptocurrency phishing activity 

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

Microsoft on Tuesday said that a cyber espionage group linked to China has been exploiting newly found flaws in the company's mail server software. On Tuesday, the company claimed that the hacking group infiltrated the email inboxes.

Hackers linked to China attack Microsoft's email server, exploit new vulnerabilities

Indian state Maharashtra’s cyber department published a report and issued a warning alongside it on June 23 claiming that threats of cyber attacks originating in China loomed large.

Maharashtra reports over 40,000 cyber attacks originating in China over the last week

Kaspersky recently discovered two new Android malware modifications that are capable of stealing cookies that are stored by the internet browser and social media applications.

Combination of Android malware may compromise user's social media accounts

They had obtained sophisticated malicious software for a modest monthly fee to go after the clients of banks

Hackers hit Russian bank customers, planned international cyber raids

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