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IIT-Delhi engineer, bank manager arrested by Mumbai Police for duping Rs 1.12 crore from a 68-year-old in a digital arrest scamAn IIT Delhi graduate and a private bank operations manager are among six people arrested in connection with a Rs 1.12 crore digital arrest...
Google faces police questioning over 500,000 fake Gmail accounts used for bomb threatsIndian police will question Google regarding safeguards after dismantling a fake Gmail account network. This network sent over 500,000 hoax...
22-year-old school dropout steals Rs 23,45,67,77,750 in crypto, buys 30 cars, custom Porsches, Lamborghinis and Ferraris, and a watch worth about Rs 20 croreA Singaporean man admitted his role in a cryptocurrency racketeering operation. This enterprise allegedly stole and laundered over $245 mil...
Banks need to invest more in digital, financial literacy to tackle cyber fraud: Bank of Baroda MDBank of Baroda MD and CEO Debadatta Chand said the financial system needs to invest significantly more in financial and digital literacy to...
Meet 22-year-old Malone Lam, the crypto thief who used the alias 'Anne Hathaway'. He spent $245 million in stolen crypto on jets, supercars and clubsMalone Lam, a young man from Singapore, confessed to orchestrating a significant cryptocurrency theft ring that illicitly acquired and laun...
Party's over for crypto scammers who went on a spending spree after a $240 million bitcoin theftIn a bold social engineering heist, young con artists pilfered over $240 million in bitcoin, leading to an extravagant month of luxury splu...
‘Mera aur Cyber Cell ka purana rishta hai’: Samay Raina jokes about ‘Latent’ row before CM Devendra Fadnavis felicitationSamay Raina joked about his “purana rishta” with Maharashtra Cyber while being felicitated by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for his cont...
Bihar police arrests three men for renting out their accounts for up to Rs 5,000 to cyberfraudsters helping them commit Rs 25 crore fraudThree men were apprehended in Patna for reportedly offering their bank accounts for rent, aiding an interstate cybercrime group’s money lau...
Assam man with China links held for Rs 1,071 crore cyber fraud across 1,090 casesGujarat CID arrested a man from Assam for orchestrating 1,090 cybercrimes. These frauds amounted to over Rs 1,071 crore and involved China-...
India may need data pact with US to tighten CSAM crackdownTwo years after the Supreme Court clarified that reporting suspected CSAM to a foreign organisation does not absolve a platform of criminal...
Unmasking digital syndicates: How public-private cooperation transforms cyber investigations in IndiaIndian law enforcement is leveraging blockchain transparency to combat financial crime effectively. Recent initiatives have focused on dism...
Digital arrests: SC tells RBI to frame SOP on mule A/CsThe Supreme Court has directed the RBI to create a standard operating procedure for mule accounts. States and Union Territories must operat...
Telangana Police book Meta India head, social media account operators over alleged objectionable posts targeting PM ModiTelangana Cyber Crime Police have filed two cases against social media account operators and Meta India's head. These cases stem from compl...
Supreme Court pushes Centre to define 'digital arrest' as standalone crime with tougher punishment amid rising deepfakes, frauds & fake callsSC on digital arrest: The Supreme Court suggested defining digital arrests as a standalone criminal offense. Existing laws may prove insuff...
Govt issues takedown notices for objectionable and anti-PM postsNEET protest content involving AI misinformation and unlawful content flagged for removal from social media platforms, says official; many ...
WhatsApp username rollout put on hold after govt noticeTelegram has also submitted its response to the government that last week issued formal notices to the messaging platforms, directing them ...
CBI nabs three people in ₹2.07 cr digital arrest scamThe CBI has apprehended three individuals in connection with a massive ₹2.07 crore digital arrest scam. Following raids in Odisha and Rajas...
Username feature carries serious risks of cybercrime: IT Secy on notices to WhatsApp, othersThe comment assumes significance as the government has shot-off notices this week questioning WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal about the usern...
Gujarat Police bust Jamtara-linked APK fraud network: Here's what is an APK scam and how does it work?Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has nabbed three individuals linked to a Jharkhand-based fraud network. These criminals allegedly distributed ...
How a Tamil Nadu engineer ran cyber camps in Cambodia with Chinese help to dupe IndiansA mechanical engineer from Tamil Nadu, Vigneshwar Muruganandham, was arrested for his involvement in a Chinese cybercrime syndicate in Camb...