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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
TopicCyber crime

Topic: Cyber crime

‘Cyber crime as a service’ with after-sale support: Inside ‘DK Boss’ gang’s cyber crime module in Jamtara

Jharkhand Police say cyber crime module, run by school dropouts using AI tools & YouTube tutorials, defrauded nearly 3,000 mobile users of Rs 12 crore and is linked to over 500 cases.

ASEAN, China meet to discuss issue of transnational crime

Officials on Thursday discussed cybercrimes, fraud, and fugitive handling at the meeting in Laos.

Stock market frauds booming in India. How kingpins holed up in Cambodia & Dubai bait & scam investors

Scams are well oiled with swindlers manipulating & looting victims for months. Probe mostly hit dead end as those arrested are brokers & mule account holders, say cops.

Vizag techies, MBAs chased visas. Landed in Cambodia’s Chinese-run digital slave camps

Lured by shady recruiters, many young graduates from Vizag are trafficked as foot soldiers in global cyber-crime rings. Their ‘job’: scamming Indians from compounds in Southeast Asia.

Ranchi court convicts 5 Jamtara residents under PMLA for running ‘organised’ cybercrime syndicate

Netflix series 'Jamtara' is said to have been based on real-life incidents of phishing phone calls and bank accounts scamming launched by criminals from this district.

Court grants bail to YouTuber arrested for ‘derogatory remarks’ against Karunanidhi

Social influencer & NTK member ‘Sattai’ Durai Murugan was arrested for making ‘derogatory remarks’ against Karunanidhi while campaigning for NTK candidate for Vikravandi bypoll.

Over 100 ‘job fraud’ websites promising quick money for ‘work from home’ blocked for ‘laundering money’

Action followed alert by National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit. MHA said in a statement that it was 'committed to curbing cybercrime & protecting people from cyber threat actors'.

‘Tiger skin to CBI impersonation’, a social activist was ‘nearly’ duped. Then started asking questions

The activist claims ‘scamsters’ allegedly posed as Mumbai Police & CBI officers to intimidate her into paying money. Police say this isn’t an isolated case.

Delhi Police busts ‘international cyber crime syndicate’ in operation with FBI, Interpol

Four arrested produced in Patiala House Court in Delhi and sent to 5-day police custody. Evidence of 'fraud worth over $ 20 million' has been collected so far, say Delhi police.

Delhi police bust gang that ‘cheated over 1,000 people’ in garb of providing govt e-services

Three including alleged mastermind held for cheating people of Rs 17 lakh. Accused also allegedly created WhatsApp groups to advertise their ‘services’.

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.