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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
TopicCyber fraud

Topic: cyber fraud

Sim card swap, OTPs & transaction limits: ICICI to pay duped Ahmedabad firm Rs 1 cr, Vodafone fined

New Delhi: The ICICI bank has been asked to pay over Rs 1 crore as compensation to an Ahmedabad-based company which became the victim...

ED raids Delhi call centres for duping US citizens. Rs 100 cr foreign remittances under probe

The central probe agency will conduct search & seizure operations at 3 locations in the Khanpur area of New Delhi in connection with an alleged international cyber fraud case.

Lok Sabha session: Jyotiraditya Scindia highlights India’s tech-based actions to counter cyber fraud

BJP MP presents the progress made under Sanchar Sathi initiative, a citizen-centric digital safety platform, highlighting 15.5 crore hits recorded since the launch in May 2023.

From Delhi, UP to Tokyo: Indian students learning Japanese among cyber fraudsters targeting Japan’s elderly

CBI conducted raids in Noida and Varanasi, arresting 6 individuals in their 20s. Japanese authorities have been informed.

What HC said on need for vigilance at point of entry while giving bail to a Malaysian national

Punjab & Haryana High Court granted bail to Muhammad Jamil, accused in a Rs 2.8 crore cyber fraud case in Haryana. Justice Anoop Chitkara also stressed on the need for a speedy trial.

Naseeruddin Shah’s brother Zameer Uddin loses Rs 1 lakh to cyber fraud while making hotel reservations

The former deputy chief of Army staff, who also served as vice-chancellor of AMU, lost Rs 93,980 in the beginning of March. Case lodged with cyber police in Gurugram.

‘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.

With 200 shell companies & an app, how Delhi CA who attacked ED team ‘ran international cyberfraud scam’

The CA & his brother absconded after attacking ED officials at his farmhouse. The ‘kingpin’ defrauded people on the pretext of job & investment offers with a ‘syndicate’ of CAs.

Amid strained India-Canada relations, cyber scammers have a free run

Cyber fraud investigations targeting senior Canadian citizens have been affected amid non-cooperation, it is learnt. Requests made under Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty are pending.

On Camera

A vicious pest is teaching Americans a lesson on why global cooperation matters

The screwworm has breached the biological wall established in Panama over decades. The pest is relentlessly marching northwards—helped by Trump’s flailing foreign policy.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

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.