Cyberthreat News

Apple unveiled a new "lockdown" mode feature as part of the iOS 16 operating system. Lockdown mode is a security feature that provides an additional layer of security to users who run the risk of being targeted by Pegasus. Users can enable Lockdown Mode on their iPhones running iOS 16.

India registered the seventh highest malware encounter rate across the region, at 5.89 per cent in the past year. This was 1.1 times higher than the regional average. The report also found that India recorded the third highest ransomware encounter rate across the region.

The US is planning to impose "a package of unprecedented sanctions" on Chinese individuals and organisations involved in cyber-economic espionage and series of attacks on American networks to steal sensitive business and trade secrets, a media report said here Monday.

Fify-six suspected hackers have been arrested in separate anti-cybercrime operations carried out across England, Scotland and Wales, authorities said Friday.

Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures "a game changer," a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism.