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Operation Octopus: Trapping the tentacles of India’s cyber fraud networkAmidst the alarming increase in cyber scams, the Hyderabad Police have initiated Operation Octopus, a mission aimed at dismantling the enti...- IPL 2026 scam season is here: Over 600 fake ticket sites, 400 malware-linked streams cheat fansAs the IPL 2026 season kicks off, a rise in cyber scams is alarming eager cricket enthusiasts. Unscrupulous fraudsters are capitalising on ...
- West Bengal elections: FIR filed against TMC's Kunal Ghosh, Garga Chatterjee over circulation of forged BJP documentWest Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: An FIR has been filed against Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh and Bangla Pokkho General Secretar...
- Australian tycoon battles Meta over fake adsAustralian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is suing Meta in a US court. He claims Meta should be responsible for scam advertisements featurin...
- 20 office gossip moments that are way too messy for HR to handleA BuzzFeed roundup collected messy office gossip shared by users on Reddit. The stories reveal awkward workplace drama, shocking incidents,...
- Facebook says China trolls 'evolving' in push for influenceFronting a Senate inquiry into foreign interference, officials from parent company Meta said there had been a noticeable "shift in tactics"...
- 50-year-old woman arrested in Mumbai for abusive Facebook comments on Devendra Fadnavis' wifeAccording to reports, the 50-year-old Smruti Panchal allegedly posted objectionable content on Amruta's official social media page for the ...
- Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts using playbook against fake networksThe new approach, reported here for the first time, uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook's security teams for wholesale shutdowns of ...
- Facebook takes down fake accounts for coordinated influence campaigns, violating policyThe network had ties to individuals linked to French military & Russia's Internet Research Agency.
- Facebook mentions Kashmir as separate country in blog, corrects itFacebook pointed out that although the people behind this activity had attempted to conceal their identities, the company's review linked t...
- Facebook: Fighting problem of misinformationFacebook has a three-pronged agenda which revolves around partnership, transparency and co-regulation, besides involving the civil society.
- Fraud or not: New algorithm can now spot fake Facebook and Twitter accountsThe method is based on the assumption that fake accounts tend to establish improbable links to other users in the networks.
- Facebook may have over 200 mn fake or duplicate accounts globallyPercentage of duplicate accounts is higher in developing markets such as India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, as compared to more develop...
- Pakistan army, ISI lodge complaint over fake Facebook accountsThere are a number of accounts on FB supposedly belonging to Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif and Director General ISI Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Facebook cracking down on fake 'likes' in poll season"We're always focused on maintaining the integrity of our site, but we've placed an increased focus on abuse from fake accounts recently," ...
- FakeOff app to detect bogus Facebook accountsAs instances of cyber impersonation on social networking sites rise, an Israel-based start-up developed an application, FakeOff, that helps...
- Another fake Facebook account case in MaharashtraRaj Thackeray-led MNS has complained to police that a bogus account was allegedly created in the name of the party chief's son on social ne...
- Another Facebook-related complaint from PalgharThis is the second complaint at the police station involving "objectionable" content against Bal Thackeray.
- You may get call from Facebook if profile identity is suspectSocial networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company...
- Got an unusual name? Facebook may think it's fakeFacebook's effort to purge its site of fake accounts, in the process knocking out some real people with unusual names.
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