Cybercrime

Investigations are under way after at least three Zoom meetings were infiltrated by people sharing footage of children being sexually abused.

BENGALURU: Barely two days after acknowledging that it was the victim of a ransomware attack, Cognizant is now facing a phone phishing attack.

Scammers hoping to cash in on coronavirus confusion are being met with new machine learning tools to stop fraudulent .uk websites ever getting online

A specialist police unit funded by the banking industry has executed several warrants across the country in a crackdown on criminals sending scam text messages and emails exploiting the coronavirus outbreak.

https://www.leicesterpropertyinsight.co.uk/covid-19-text-message-scams-crackdown-funded-by-banking-industry

Maze ransomware targeted Cognizant as its latest victim. This caused service disruptions for some of the company’s clients.

The UK government’s scheme to pay furloughed employees 80% of their wages is being targeted by cyber criminals

After 20 years of silence, Onel de Guzman has admitted unleashing the “Love Bug”, the computer virus that caused havoc by infecting 45 million machines around the world

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252481937/Revealed-The-man-behind-the-first-major-computer-virus-pandemic

Cognizant was attacked by the Maze ransomware gang, the company confirmed Saturday. It's unclear whether Cognizant clients were also breached or infected with ransomware.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252481892/Cognizant-discloses-Maze-ransomware-attack

Domain name registry has thwarted hundreds of attempts to register malicious .uk domain names during the coronavirus pandemic

The company, which has almost 300,000 employees, said it was hit by the 'Maze' ransomware group and is engaging law enforcement authorities.