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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
TopicCyber crime

Topic: Cyber crime

CBI seeks general consent from 14 states to probe cybercrime, year after panel flagged delays

The CBI has approached chief secretaries of 14 states for general consent to investigate cybercrime, amid concerns that case-by-case approvals delay probes and strain resources.

A WhatsApp message from your CEO, Rs 1.5 crore gone. How the ‘Boss scam’ is tricking Indian executives

The fraud has prompted the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) to issue an advisory as investigators trace syndicates operating through mule bank accounts.

Japan hires new AI police chief to tackle rising online scams

AIko, who has the face and voice of a young woman, appears wearing a blue police uniform and a police chief badge on Osaka Prefectural Police’s YouTube channel.

Gujarat woman’s ‘spiritual’ friend turns stalker, held for posting her morphed photos online for months

The accused, a self-described yoga guru from Delhi, was complainant's Instagram friend, who she had confided in upon discovering AI images of herself on social media.

Coins, gifts, manipulation, fraud: Inside the world of live-streaming ‘friendship’ apps, now under lens

A cyber fraud case & a PIL bring scrutiny on live-streaming & social apps accused of enabling obscenity, sextortion & organised cybercrime through virtual coin-and-gift economies.

India’s CBI is FBI’s key partner-in-crime: 475 arrests in 27 joint ops against cyber crime over 4 yrs

India not only cog in global cybercrime ecosystem, but also partner in efforts to dismantle it. Illegal call centres a major concern, with many of them operating out of India, targeting victims abroad.

Cybercrime saw 24% spike in 2025. Indians lost Rs 22,495 crore, mainly in investment scams

The data signals a worrying trend of cybercrime widening in scale, even though enforcement agencies manage to contain financial damage through real-time intervention.

Sold for $5,000, nails pulled out—Indians’ accounts of being trapped in Myanmar’s cyber scam hubs

Between January 2022 and May 2024, at least 29,466 Indians travelled to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar & Vietnam on tourist visas & didn’t return, ThePrint has learnt. 

China shut down cyber scam centres on its borders. For India, the pressure will only grow

From 2023 to 2024, there was an estimated increase of 200 per cent in financial fraud, with reported losses of over Rs 22,000 crore. But the concern for India is deeper.

Rajasthan CMO to Modi stadium, jilted techie ‘sent 30+ hoax threats’ in 11 states to ‘frame’ man she loved

The woman, now arrested by Ahmedabad cyber police, had allegedly created around 1.3 lakh fake accounts to send the threats.

On Camera

Modi is now the establishment, not an outsider. And he is running out of enemies to name

Jawan, kisan, vigyan, knowledge, new thinking—each word spoken from Red Fort offered an idea of what India might become. Dimagi Naxal is not an addition to that rich vocabulary. It is a subtraction.

Houston, we have a start-up boom: India’s space ventures jump from 1 to 400 in four years

India’s space start-up ecosystem has blasted off from one venture in 2022 to more than 400 in 2026, as the satellite communications industry targets an 8% share of GDP by 2033.

85-member Army contingent leaves for Thailand for joint counter-terror exercise MAITREE-XV

This two-week exercise includes field training, combat discussions, lectures, and demonstrations, culminating in a final exercise to test the troops' skills.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman