Key Takeaways:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made the '.bank.in' domain mandatory for all licensed banks in India.
This exclusive domain acts as a critical security filter to prevent banking fraud, especially phishing.
Only RBI-regulated institutions can register for the '.bank.in' domain, guaranteeing website authenticity.
Customers must now verify the URL ending to ensure they are on a legitimate bank portal.
VanHelsing has emerged as a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that changes the rules for cross-platform attackers. First observed on March 7, 2025, VanHelsing provides a fully packaged service to criminal affiliates: a $5,000 deposit to join, an 80% cut of ransom payments for affiliates, and a user-friendly control panel to orchestrate attacks across heterogeneous environments.
A new wave of phishing attacks is exploiting the credibility of trusted cloud platforms like Cloudflare Pages and Zendesk to execute large-scale credential theft operations. Security researchers have uncovered an elaborate infrastructure of malicious domains designed to impersonate legitimate customer support portals, revealing an alarming escalation in the use of reputable cloud services for social engineering.
Anthropic’s Claude AI — with its new network-enabled Code Interpreter — can be manipulated to siphon private information from users by way of cleverly hidden, indirect prompts. A proof-of-concept disclosed by Johann Rehberger (October 2025) shows how attackers can trick the model into retrieving chat histories and uploading them to the attacker’s account, exposing a new class of risks that come with connecting large language models to external services.
The open-source command-and-control (C2) framework AdaptixC2 has rapidly gained attention — not just among ethical hackers, but increasingly among Russian-linked ransomware operators exploiting it for sophisticated cyberattacks.
A new report from EY reveals a troubling trend: half of all organizations have been negatively impacted by security vulnerabilities in their AI systems, exposing critical weaknesses in how enterprises deploy and secure artificial intelligence.
A new affiliate-style ransomware-as-a-service called Gentlemen’s, promoted by actor zeta88, brings purpose-built lockers for Windows, Linux, ESXi and more — and a generous 90/10 revenue split that could accelerate adoption.
RBI Mandates '.bank.in': A New Era for Secure Digital Banking Key Takeaways: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made the '....
