NEWS UPDATE: WhatsApp adds new limits on forwarding of viral messages

Popular messages can now be forward to a single person, down from five With the potential of private messaging apps to spread misinformation related to coronavirus pandemic, WhatsApp said it would place new limits on forwarded messages. From now on messages that have been identified as “highly forwarded” (sent through a chain of five or…

NEWS UPDATE: Attacker now target Educational Institutions after corporate entities and Hospitals

Education is a hot target for ransomware: Nearly 50 school districts and colleges have been hit in 2019 so far, and more than 500 individual K-12 (Online learning Provider) schools have potentially been compromised. Cloud security firm Armor has been tracking publicly disclosed ransomware attacks since January 2019. Of the 182 total victim organizations this…

NEWS UPDATE: Ransomware Attack on Vashi Hospital Navi Mumbai, MH INDIA

NAVI MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA: MGM Hospital Vashi, had been under the target of hackers and ransomware attack. An hacker locked the data on the hospital’s IT systems mainly computers and sent them a web link demanding ransom in bitcoins to unlock the data. MGM Hospital’s management system had lodged a complaint with the cyber crime cell…