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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...
- Social media ban for under-16s passes Australian Senate, will soon be world-first lawThe law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian d...
- Australia's House of Representatives passes bill that would ban young children from social mediaAustralia's House of Representatives has passed a bill banning children under 16 from social media. Platforms like TikTok and Facebook face...
- 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...
- Mumbai man loses Rs 1.07 crore in trading scam; Here's how Indians lost Rs 1,750 cr in just four monthsA 48-year-old man from Navi Mumbai lost Rs 1.07 crore in a share trading scam, highlighting a broader surge in cybercrime in India. The Ind...
- 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...
- Meta turns to AI to protect minors from 'sextortion' on InstagramMeta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has bee...
- 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 ...
- G20 website targeted at least 16 lakh times last year: Cyber AgencyIndia's official G20 website was attacked at least 16 lakh times last year, with ₹10,319 crore stolen between April 2021 and December 2023....
- Over Rs 10,300 crore siphoned off by cyber criminals since 2021: reportOver 4.52 lakh cyber crime cases were reported on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) in 2021, which rose by 113.7% in 2022, wi...
- Scams, phishing made up over 75% of digital threats in first half of 2023: ReportAccording to the consumer cyber safety brand Norton's new report released on Thursday, cybercriminals now have added support from Artificia...
- 'Fake bride' extorts Rs 1.1 crore from UK-based engineer after video callThe woman befriended Sunny with a fake profile and borrowed Rs 1,500 by citing a medical emergency. Later, she exposed herself while secret...
- 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...
- A dark web of crime grows in Delhi's shadow: 28,000 cases and countingThe criminals from Nuh have victims in almost every state of India. Recent arrests of a few dozen criminals have led to the discovery of 28...
- No kingpins, just a smartphone and SIM card: How cybercriminals in Mewat scam mobile ownersDelhi Police are also now keeping an eye on the young scammers operating from the Mewat region after several cases of scams revealed that t...
- 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...
- Sextortion, blackmail & porn scams on the rise in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak; why you shouldn't be scaredThese emails are scams, and are just a pack of lies to frighten you into sending money.
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