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Topic: cybercrime

After Indonesia & Malaysia, Philippines moves to block Grok AI

The Philippines’ cybercrime center is working with the telecoms commission to implement the “immediate” blocking of Grok.

‘PVR’ of fighting cyber crime: Haryana DGP bats for Pause, Verify, Report model to check online fraud

Three-step 'simple, musical' strategy linked with Bollywood songs is designed to prompt people to take two crucial seconds to think when a suspicious message or call hits phone.

IAF brings back 270 Indians who fled to Thailand to escape Myanmar cyber scam hub

They were lured into Myanmar by promises of lucrative jobs. But once there, they found themselves forced into criminal activities by operators of the alleged scam center.

India’s IT hub Bengaluru is also the cybercrime capital with over 17,000 cases

Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of convictions in cybercrime cases at 446, followed by Jharkhand with 114.

House panel to Modi govt—empower CBI to probe cybercrime cases without state’s consent

IUML MP in dissent note to House panel chairperson says recommended amendments to DSPE Act, 1946, are ‘sweeping’ and may impinge upon cooperative federalism.

India’s elderly are losing their savings to scams. And it’s creating health problems

Tapan Bhattacharya, a retired banker, said his degree of awareness of such crimes is high. He still lost Rs 20 lakh in a scam.

Jamtara is getting a big makeover, shedding stigma. Police are aiding, not raiding

Jamtara is going all out to erase its tag as a cybercrime capital. Cops are running coaching classes, turning old thanas into libraries, and inviting YouTubers to teach positive internet use.

Pyramid of cyber criminals & stolen data at heart of digital arrest scam. They know everything about you

In Part 2 of this two-part series, ThePrint spoke to Pao Pao, a recruiter who said those hired for ‘digital arrest’ scams submit passports and are only allowed to leave compound thrice a week.

In a first, 540 Indians detained from Cambodian scam farms to be repatriated on 10 March

As many as a thousand people were detained after joint raids by Thai and Cambodian law enforcement agencies from various scam farms over the past week, it is learnt.

How scammers are using AI, transforming India’s cybercrime landscape. ’60-70% of our work depends on it’

In the past 11 months, 90,000 digital arrest scams have been reported with victims losing over Rs 2,100 cr. Many more cases likely go unreported due to embarrassment or lack of awareness.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.