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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

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.