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Cyber attacks can plunge India s COVID vaccination drive into pandemonium: experts Key to the success of the pan-India COVID-19 vaccination drive, scheduled to be launched by PM Narendra Modi on January 16, will be the cybersecurity framework India has readied, experts say Last month, a threat intelligence task force created by IBM Security X-Force uncovered a global phishing campaign targeting organisations associated with a COVID-19 cold chain. This component of the vaccine supply chain ensures the safe preservation of vaccines in temperature-controlled environments during their storage and transportation. The phishing attack worked like this: The adversary impersonated a business executive from Haier Biomedical, a member company of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain and qualified supplier for the Gavi vaccine alliance s Cold Chain Equipment Optimisation Platform (CCEOP) programme. Disguised as this employee, the adversary sent phishing e-mails to organisations believed t ....
Increasing cyber-attacks show why stringent cyber-security laws are need of the hour While large companies and organisations have the capital and the resources to deploy various technologies and solutions, on an individual level, the threat looms large Nidhi Singal | January 10, 2021 | Updated 09:03 IST India is likely to have a robust cybersecurity policy soon Dr Reddy s, BigBasket and now JusPay, there are just a handful of data breach instances that have been reported over the last quarter, and not to mention the ones that we aren t aware of yet. Surprising it may sound but in 2019, India was amongst world s top 5 cyber-targeted nations along with US, UK, Singapore and Ukraine wherein it held the top position for three months. A growing economy and also an outsourcing hub, India is on the radar of cybercriminals. ....
COVID-19 pandemic: Why the sudden boost in digital transformation calls for tougher cybersecurity in India In June 2020 alone, personal and financial data of 2.91 crore Indians was leaked on to the dark web. Dec 23, 2020 16:22:55 IST As the COVID-19 pandemic spread over the world, we saw an explosive dependence on the digital medium for everything from shopping, studying to working. However, the sudden boost in digital transformation also attracted bad attention. In June 2020, personal and financial data of 2.91 crore Indians was leaked on to the dark web, and 3.24 million personal records were stolen or exposed in case of identity theft across India. We spoke to Ram Seethepalli, CEO, Europ Assistance India about why India needs tougher cybersecurity, why it needs to guard against cyberattacks, and educate users against cyber thefts. ....