Sextortion, fake jobs and trading frauds: Police data reveals scamsters’ dirty playbook, how they trap victims and move fundsCybercrime networks across India are perpetrating scams like sextortion, online trading fraud, and fake job offers, exploiting vulnerable i...
11 Sep, 2025, 03.50 PM IST
Lucknow's 'mule account' menace: How local youths are fuelling global cyber fraud networkIn Lucknow, young adults are being lured into cyber fraud schemes by renting out their bank accounts for quick cash. These accounts are use...
10 Aug, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
MHA alerts public of online booking scams impersonating religious institutions, tourist servicesThe Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre warns of online booking scams. These scams target pilgrims and tourists through fake websites an...
19 Apr, 2025, 11.34 AM IST
Govt mulling AI use to identify mule accounts to check cybercrime: Home Minister Amit ShahThe government plans to utilize Artificial Intelligence to identify mule accounts where cyber fraudsters park illegal funds. Home Minister ...
11 Feb, 2025, 01.41 PM IST
How tech hub Telangana is becoming a cybercrime hotspot? All you need to knowCybercriminals, ranging from amateur OTP fraudsters from Jharkhand's notorious Jamtara to sophisticated malware experts operating from high...
22 Jul, 2024, 12.28 PM IST
90,000 scams in 4 months: How Southeast Asia is becoming the next Jamtara; Fraudsters recruiting from Andhra, TN, OdishaIndia faces a surge in cyber fraud from Southeast Asia, surpassing domestic hotspots. Nearly half of the defrauded money comes from scams s...
24 May, 2024, 08.03 PM IST
Wary of BoB World app and other scams, Fin Min bats for enhanced KYC, due diligenceTo counter financial frauds like the BoB World app scam, the finance ministry proposes reinforced KYC procedures and due diligence for merc...
14 Apr, 2024, 11.40 AM IST
Pratibimb nails 454 black hats in Jamtara zoneThe Pratibimb app, launched in November-December, led to the arrest of 454 cyber criminals in Jamtara, Deoghar, and Giridih areas of Jharkh...
04 Jan, 2024, 12.02 AM IST
Trafficking for cyber fraud an increasingly globalised crime, Interpol saysThe global police coordination body said law enforcement from more than 20 countries in October carried out inspections at hundreds of traf...
08 Dec, 2023, 02.26 PM IST
80% of cyber crimes from 10 districts; Rajasthan's Bharatpur new Jamtara: studyA study by IIT Kanpur-incubated startup Future Crime Research Foundation suggests that the analysis of the top 10 cybercrime hubs (district...
24 Sep, 2023, 06.01 PM IST
Cyber threat now a matter of national security, says Amit ShahUnion home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said cyber security is no longer limited to the digital world and it has become a matter of nation...
29 Mar, 2023, 12.28 AM IST
These three dozen cities, villages are the cybercrime hotspots in nine statesBesides, a number of hostile countries have been trying for long to cripple India's financial system and national security grid where addit...
28 Mar, 2023, 09.36 PM IST
Identify cyber hotspots, maintain data profile of cyber crimes: Parliamentary PanelThe committee noted that states and Union Territories have been requested to install IP cameras at strategic locations in all police statio...
17 Mar, 2023, 09.53 PM IST
State goverments working to ensure home delivery of essential items in COVID-19 hotspots: MHACOVID-19 hotspots have been declared in various districts of the country by respective state governments to contain the spread of the disea...
12 Apr, 2020, 07.46 PM IST
Rs 2919 crore approved for safety-related projects in 8 cities, Lok Sabha toldNew Delhi, Aug 3 () The government has approved Rs 2,919 crore for various projects to strengthen safety measures in eight cities in the co...
03 Aug, 2018, 05.11 PM IST
Cyber crime: Easy money, lack of deterrents amid slow job market lure Indians into hacking servicesWork such as hacking into computer networks and creation of malware is being outsourced to cyber-mercenaries in India through underground m...
25 Aug, 2013, 01.18 PM IST
- Wi-fi used to send email was planned in advance: police
Investigators, probing the threatening email, suspects the wi-fi internet connection used to send the message had been planned in advance.
15 Sep, 2008, 09.00 PM IST