'The way the attacks are coming has become much stronger and much wider because of AI.'
'If you align your ambition with India's rise, the peak of your careers will unfold alongside the peak of India's power.'
AI-driven and deepfake-enabled cyberattacks are anticipated to become increasingly prevalent in 2025 with sectors like healthcare and finance most prone targets, according to a recent report. The India Cyber Threat Report 2025 by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and Seqrite, spotlighted the evolving tactics of cybercriminals and the rise of AI-driven attacks as a major concern. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be used to develop highly sophisticated phishing campaigns utilising deepfake technology and personalised attack vectors, making them harder to detect.
Analysts say that these programmes are not system heavy or resource intensive.
An international team, led by Murray Brand, says that a theoretical attack strategy it calls a malware rebirthing botnet would render existing antivirus measures obsolete by using different kinds of malware in a coordinated strike.
The FBI chief said that in the last presidential elections, the Russians were not able to change the actual vote tally, but one day they might.
It will tackle crimes, including those associated with malware, botnets, intellectual property theft and technology facilitated child exploitation.
TDL-4 uses a rootkit attack technique to infect a machine's boot sector when a user is starting his computer (known as booting). Hence, it avoids detection by some security tools.
The hacking, which extensively comprised information of 68,000 corporate login credentials and online banking sites, was discovered in late January, according to US-based computer security firm NetWitness.
Growing instances of such crimes constantly remind us the need to create a culture of cyber security awareness and need to evolve effective preventive measures, he said.
Unwanted junk messages now make up as much as 95 per cent of all e-mail. How you can fight back.
E-mail security firm Return Path said 99 per cent of the computers it monitors have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
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In cyber security, India's main concerns are Pakistani and Chinese espionage. Which is exactly why the US needs to build up partnership with India.
Sectoral cyber security teams to be set up to curb attacks, cyber coordination centre likely be set up in New Delhi by June.
Internet users in India is attracting cyber criminals, as these are first-timers, who can be duped easily
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'We are in touch independently with leading players, and they are denying it as well.' 'The Indian digital footprint is rising, creating new opportunities.'
Drones are of course, remotely controlled and modern ships are also chip-driven.
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