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Topic: cybercrime

‘Pavel Durov has nothing to hide, absurd to hold him responsible for abuse of social media’—Telegram

Telegram's Russia-born founder was arrested by French police during preliminary investigation into cyber crimes through Telegram, drawing flak from Moscow.

Armed with scripts, fine-tuned accents, Gurugram ‘call centre’ agents duped elderly in US, Europe

CBI arrested 43 from call centre in Gurugram’s DLF Cyber City in raid part of Operation CHAKRA-III. Agency suspects accused made millions of dollars each month, it is learnt.

Shady hideouts, fake SIMs, low tolerance for ‘snitches’ — how Nuh turned into cybercrime hotbed

New houses, expensive bikes, and flashy watches are among signs of burgeoning cybercrime ‘business’ in Nuh, Haryana’s poorest district. ‘Those who show off money too soon get caught.’

Government blocks 28,200 mobile handsets to curb misuse in cybercrimes and financial frauds

This action was taken after DoT analyzed mobile handsets that were misused in cybercrimes and found that 20 lakh numbers were used with these mobile handsets.

AI-aided sextortion, ‘punishment rooms’ & cyber slaves: Inside Cambodia’s billion-dollar scam industry

New Delhi/Bengaluru: Walls as high as 15 ft run into every direction. Men armed with tasers and batons are on guard 24/7 to apprehend...

Haryana Police crack down on cybercrime as cases soar: 10x rise in 4 years

In 2023, 1,08,055 cybercrime incidents (FIRs & complaints registered) were reported in Haryana (until 8 December), compared to 9,900 in 2019, according to state govt data.

Online violence against women not taken seriously enough by courts, says Indian IT group study

Study based on analysis of 94 court cases by Karnataka-based lawyers Malavika Rajkumar and Shreeja Sen. It was published earlier this month on the group’s website.

Getting ads for WFH jobs, ‘earn Rs 20,000 daily’? CBI says one of largest ‘cyber-enabled frauds’ in India

CBI has raided locations across India as part of 'Operation Chakra 2' to dismantle 'organised cyber-enabled financial crime’. An FIR in connection with the scam was registered last year.

CBI busts firms duping foreigners in guise of Microsoft & Amazon, Rs 100-cr crypto fraud in massive op

As part of CBI’s week-long ‘Operation Chakra 2’, searches carried out in MP, UP, Karnataka, Haryana, Kerala, TN, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal and HP, as well as Delhi.  

‘Cybercrime courses costlier than IIT fee’—IPS officer’s new book gives lay of the land

Top cop Ashok Kumar's new book documents 12 short stories of cybercrime based on true events, with a foreword by Amitabh Bachchan.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.