Kidneys on sale with UPI payment! Telangana organ racket turns out to be a cybercrimeTelangana CID busts cybercrime kidney racket involving UPI payments. Investigation reveals no real organ trade. Organ donors and seekers po...
17 Feb, 2024, 08.22 PM IST
Conman posing as UK-based 'heart specialist' dupes 22 women of Rs 4.5 croreThe con artist reached out to women through matrimonial websites, claiming to be a doctor and convincing them to give money by concocting f...
18 Aug, 2023, 02.25 PM IST
Beware: Cybercriminals using 'limitless' AI tools like FraudGPT or WormGPT for fraudsAdvanced generative AI Chatbots called FraudGPT and WormGPT have emerged on the dark web and can be purchased by cybercriminals to create p...
31 Jul, 2023, 04.14 PM IST
Assam police has come up with system where financial frauds can be reported and traced instantlyAssam police stated that a large number of people lose money due to financial cyber frauds, but by the time police receives the information...
28 Jun, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
Probe into instant loan apps fraud throws up China linkConfirming the China connection, superintendent of police, CID-cybercrime, MD Sharath, said: “Operations of the companies which were raided...
28 Dec, 2020, 08.35 AM IST
Sloppy probes, poor training blamed for low conviction rate in KarnatakaOnly one conviction has been achieved in September 2018, when Shivaprasad Sajjan, a techieturned lawyer, was sentenced to two years’ impris...
04 Mar, 2019, 05.24 PM IST
Cybercrimes rise in Bengaluru, but not chargesheetsA total of 5,036 cases were filed in 2018, or 13.8 cases per day, as opposed to 2,023 cases in about nine months of 2017.
09 Jan, 2019, 11.29 AM IST
Infosys Foundation to build center for handling cybercrime investigationAs part of the deal, the Infosys Foundation will support the establishment of the Centre that will house the CCITR through a public-private...
03 Oct, 2018, 04.13 PM IST
How Indian Police is being trained to tackle cybercrimeThe National Information Security Education & Awareness (ISEA) programme expects to train over one lakh people — not just police personnel ...
07 Apr, 2018, 01.29 PM IST
Bengaluru police go high-tech: City to Get Stronger Cybercrime UnitIts remit is restricted to registering complaints of credit and debit card misuse if the fraud amount exceeds Rs 5 lakh and cases of fraudu...
25 Jan, 2017, 12.12 PM IST
Not one cybercrime conviction in Bengaluru in the past 15 yearsNationally, of the more than 14,000 cases of cybercrime fraud since 2012, only 40 have ended up in convictions.
25 Mar, 2016, 10.43 AM IST
Kolkata cops keep a hawk eye on social media for Mamata Banerjee's criticsPeople were summoned by the CID and Kolkata police agencies and they were asked to refrain from posting "abusive and inflammatory" content ...
10 Feb, 2016, 11.39 AM IST
Small cybercrime team no match for complaint spikeBengaluru's first exclusive cybercrime police station has not been able to solve not even one of the 26 complaints it has received since it...
20 Jan, 2016, 10.42 AM IST
SBI, Axis Bank wallet apps hacked to siphon off croresBengaluru's cyber-crime police attached to the Criminal Investigation Department have arrested seven persons including a deputy manager wit...
12 Jan, 2016, 10.17 PM IST
Bengaluru to get cyber crime police station in a weekCitizens can directly approach the station if they have a complaint related to a cyber crime incident.The new station will be opened in a w...
16 Sep, 2015, 09.57 AM IST
India's tech capital Bengaluru has no cyber crime police stationPolice has infrastructure for cyber-crime station ready in new commissioner's building but has no officials to handle cases.
05 Mar, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
Cyber-crime cases jump 1033 per cent in a year, Kolkata youths at riskWhile such cases have increased by a whopping 355.8 % in the state, the Kolkata figures can scare anyone. It shows a 1033.3 % jump in 2012.
26 Jun, 2014, 12.28 PM IST