Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Futurex's Ruchin Kumar on CBDC Adoption and HSM Security for TransactionsCBDCs are expanding, with 90% of central banks exploring them. India's e-rupee pilot shows strong adoption, backed by RBI standards and HSM-secure transactions. Ruchin Kumar, VP for South Asia at Futurex, underscores awareness, interoperability and encryption as keys to CBDC success and PQC readiness.

A high court in the Indian state of Karnataka has ordered the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country

Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended India's Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption – which, shockingly, isn't already implemented – for certain messages sent to its trading platforms when using its Enhanced Trading Interface (ETI).…

Indian government entities and the defense sector have been targeted by a phishing campaign that's engineered to drop Rust-based malware for intelligence gathering

This blog entry looks at the characteristics of a new WannaRen ransomware variant, which we named Life ransomware after its encryption extension.