Hyderabad police crackdown on pan-India cyber fraud network, 32 bank officials among 52 heldUnder 'Operation Octopus 2.O', as many as 32 bank officials, 15 mule account holders and five middlemen were apprehended for complicity, Hy...
19 Apr, 2026, 08.12 PM IST
CBI conducts searches at 42 locations, arrests five under Operation Chakra -VThe CBI, as part of Operation Chakra-V, conducted searches at 38 Point of Sale Agents of Telecom Operators across eight states, uncovering ...
10 May, 2025, 10.03 PM IST
How Hyderabad police nabbed over 50 cyber frauds including bank babus involved in nearly 600 casesA cybercrime crackdown led by DCP Kavitha resulted in the arrest of 52 individuals across eight states. The operation revealed approximatel...
30 Jan, 2025, 08.36 AM IST
Karnataka citizens lost around Rs 600 crore in 4 years to scams; Check how much was recoveredBetween January 2020 and July 10, 2024, job scams, fraudulent loan applications, and deceptive schemes using the names of foreign firms hav...
22 Jul, 2024, 11.56 AM IST
Karnataka open to partnering with Meta for cybersafety: State IT Minister Priyank KhargeWe are trying to see how to prevent youngsters from falling prey to loan apps etc, Priyank Kharge said. In his keynote address, he said, if...
04 Nov, 2023, 09.15 PM IST
Cybercrime cases triple in Bengaluru in six years, card payments/online transfer top charts of fraudCybercrime cases in Bengaluru have more than tripled between 2017 and 2022, and the number of cases this calendar year may beat all previou...
12 Jul, 2023, 08.25 PM IST
Cybersecurity startup 1Kosmos announces SIM binding to prevent online fraudThe technology will help organizations meet the RBI advisory on preventing internet retail banking fraud in India, the company, backed by F...
17 Dec, 2021, 04.39 PM IST
Bitcoin case: Centre rules out CBI probeMoS (Finance) Pankaj Chaudhary informed JD (S) member Prajwal Revanna in the Lok Sabha that Enforcement Directorate's Bengaluru zonal unit ...
29 Nov, 2021, 08.00 PM IST
Crimes too went digital in the pandemic, up 12%Uttar Pradesh pipped Karnataka to emerge as the state with the highest number of cybercrimes reported in 2020 - constituting over a fifth o...
29 Sep, 2021, 02.41 PM IST
Cybercrimes jumped 64% in 2019, Karnataka worst-hit: NCRBKarnataka reported the highest cybercrimes at 12,020, followed by Uttar Pradesh (11,416) and Maharashtra (4,967). Cybercrime rate, calculat...
01 Oct, 2020, 09.06 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
Over 60% cases at state women’s panel on social media harassmentAccording to the monthly crime statistics compiled by the Karnataka state police, in December 2018, 26 cases of cybercrimes against women w...
06 Feb, 2019, 11.12 AM IST
Bengaluru is India’s cybercrime capitalIn Bengaluru, the high reportage of cases coupled with a lone and understaffed cybercrime police station has led to poor disposal rate of s...
01 Feb, 2019, 07.15 PM IST
Two tiger reserves’ staff will learn to fight online crimeEmployees of Kali Tiger Reserve in Uttara Kannada and Nagarhole, which falls in Kodagu and Mysuru, will attend the training
23 Jan, 2019, 11.39 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
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