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Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
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 ...
Is Canvas still hacked - what is a data breach? The shocking Canvas cyberattack timelineWhat really happened in the Canvas data breach? Hackers allegedly accessed 275 million student records, exposing education’s dangerous hidd...
Teacher Appreciation Week 2026 Deals: Free meals, big discounts and why it matters more than everNational Teacher Appreciation Week 2026 offers numerous deals and freebies for educators from May 4-8. Many businesses, including Chipotle,...
Bot or not: World ID 4.0, Sam Altman’s `proof of human' for the AI eraSam Altamns's Tools for Humanity launched World ID 4.0, an enhanced, open-source human verification protocol. This upgrade introduces key r...
Phishing fraudsters impersonate Home Office to breach UK visa sponsor accountsA new cyber fraud is targeting UK organisations. Scammers are impersonating the Home Office. They aim to steal login details for visa spons...
Tatkal ticket mystery solved: IRCTC may have found the dirty tricks behind train ticket fraud, blocks 2.5 crore user IDsIRCTC has intensified its crackdown on ticketing fraud, identifying 2.9 lakh suspicious PNRs and deactivating 2.5 crore user IDs between Ja...
Can you believe this? North Korean hackers pose as U.S developers in Fortune 500 firms, funnel millions to Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons programsNorth Korean hackers have secretly infiltrated U.S. tech companies, posing as American software engineers to fund Kim Jong Un’s nuclear wea...
Scammers using hope, fear and greed to cheat investors, says Zerodha's Nithin KamathNithin Kamath warns about the increasing online fraud scams targeting investors. He advises caution and verification before making investme...
Hyderabad cop gets fake voter ID in 1 hour for Rs 1,500: Police sting reveals allHyderabad police busted a fake voter ID ring that produced counterfeit cards for Rs 1,500 each. The group, led by Y Raj Kumar, created a ne...
Rahul Tyagi on LinkedIn scams, deepfakes & cyber security"LinkedIn has become a target for AI-based scams, with scammers creating fake profiles and promising high-paying jobs. These scams gained t...
Indian investors likely lost Rs 1,000 cr to fake crypto exchanges: ReportCyber-security company CloudSEK said it had uncovered an ongoing operation involving several phishing domains and Android-based fake crypto...
Naresh Jain earned Rs 450 crore for rotating black money of businessmen, netasThe ongoing investigation against him has given an idea why Jain considered India safe to return. For, while allegedly being on the run, he...
Fake profiles of IPS officials on Facebook on the riseSecurity experts say IPS officials, other high ranking officers have increasingly complained of account impersonation, other online financi...
Telcos raise watch over systems amid govt warning of phishing attacks using COVID-19 as baitCERT-In, in its advisory, outlined a list of steps for users to protect themselves, including not opening attachments in unsolicited e-mail...
Govt warns against large-scale phishing attacks using COVID-19 as baitThe phishing campaign is expected to start on June 21, 2020 with cyber attackers using email IDs such as "ncov2019@gov.in". The attackers a...
Government warns against major upcoming phishing attack which promises free Covid-19 testingThe phishing campaign is expected to be designed to impersonate government agencies, departments and trade associations who have been taske...
Why government's push to make Aadhaar mandatory could erode public faith in Aadhaar-enabled paymentsAadhaar — unlike Google or any other digital service —is compulsory in India, when the country doesn’t even have a data protection and priv...
- UID project to face first major test next month
UID system to be linked to MGNREGA in 5 blocks of Jharkhand; result of the test run to help authorities decide on the project's expansion.
- PM to launch Unique Identification Numbers today
Manmohan Singh will launch the issue of Unique Identification Numbers (Aadhaar) nationally by distributing the first set of numbers among t...