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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, internal documents showMeta documents reveal the company projected earning billions from scam ads, failing for years to stop fraudulent schemes targeting users. D...- CBI arrests 8 cybercriminals in four month crackdown under Interpol's global operationGlobally, Interpol coordinated the operation across 40 countries and territories. It resulted in the recovery of $342 million in government...
- 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...
- AI-powered 'nudify' apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmailA Kentucky teen’s suicide has spotlighted the rise of AI-driven sextortion, where scammers use “nudify” apps to blackmail minors with fake ...
- Nigerian scammers accused in AI-driven fake Brad Pitt fraudThe scammers deceived 53-year-old Anne, into believing that she was in a romantic relationship with a 61-year-old Hollywood actor Brad Pitt...
- India launches online 'Suspect Registry' to combat cyber crime: 1.4 mn criminals identifiedUnion home minister Amit Shah launched an online 'suspect registry' containing data of 1.4 million cyber criminals involved in financial fr...
- Meta removes 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria over 'sextortion' scamsNigerian online fraudsters, known as "Yahoo boys," are notorious for scams that range from passing themselves off as people in financial ne...
- Nearly 700 people falling prey to cyber crimes in Delhi every day: DCP Cyber Crime CellThe Deputy Commissioner of Delhi's Cyber Crime Cell revealed a concerning trend of 700 cyber fraud victims daily in the capital. The crimes...
- Indians lost over ₹1,750 crore to cyber fraud in first four months of 2024According to Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), on an average 7,000 cybercrime complaints were registered per day in May 2024, a...
- US Senate hearing: Meta, TikTok, X CEOs grilled by senators about child sexual exploitationThe hearing marks the latest effort by lawmakers to address the concerns of parents and mental health experts that social media companies p...
- MHA think tank alerts against 'hijack', sextortion, impersonation scams on WhatsAppThe Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) has issued an advisory and alert against various scams on WhatsApp that lead to cyber ...
- Nitin Bhatnagar on the latest trends in cyber fraud and how to safeguard against it“A magnitude of frauds are happening today and we cannot really classify them. What is important for users to understand is that while you ...
- ETSA 2023: Nominees for Startup of The Year; Coinbase discontinues services in IndiaFinally, it’s time to announce the last but most coveted category of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2023: Startup of The Year. A singula...
- Amid sextortion's rise, computer scientists tap AI to identify risky appsPredators are increasingly weaponizing apps and online services to collect explicit images. Last year, law enforcement received 7,000 repor...
- Getting random calls on WhatsApp from international numbers? Here are the results of a surveyLocalCircles survey on WhatsApp spam calls: 46% of users surveyed confirmed that they have been facing an onslaught of audio or video calls...
- Achieved '100 per cent success' in ensuring peace, Pak-sponsored online terror a challenge: Kashmir ADGPThere were no hartals, street violence, internet shutdown, funeral processions of terrorists, glamorising of terrorists and stone pelting i...
- Job-tech firms hit as startup hiring falls; IT firms’ clients focus on smaller deals amid downturnEdtech startups such as Masai School, Simplilearn and Relevel are reworking their approach because of the slowdown in the job market, espec...
- Meta partners with Assam Police to launch a Digital Literacy and Awareness programme for adolescentsThe programme, We Think Digital, will focus on digital safety best practices and will provide easy access to youth to digital literacy awar...
- How Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2 billion WhatsApp usersWhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages, but the Facebook-owned messaging service—the world's largest—has an extensive mo...
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