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Topic: cybercrime

50% of crimes reported are cybercrimes, loan app fraud most dangerous: Hyderabad police commissioner.

Hyderabad: Hyderabad city police commissioner C.V. Anand said Wednesday that of a daily average of 100 FIRs being filed in his jurisdiction, 50 percent...

Agra police bust call centre for ‘duping Americans on promise of free loans, selling info to hackers’

The US embassy has been informed about the crackdown and now the US investigation agencies will be involved in the probe.

Cybercriminals using ChatGPT to create more convincing online scam content: Norton

New Delhi: Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has shot to popularity since its launch last November, with millions of users — including cybercriminals. They're using...

India’s rapid digitisation has one major casualty—cybersecurity

Most states are financially stressed and have too many competing demands on their budget to accord cyber security any worthwhile priority.

After AIIMS ransomware attack, Modi govt’s building a task force to fight cyber espionage

DGPs discussed setting up National Counter Ransomware Taskforce last week. This is part of 3-fold measure which also includes drawing up National Information Security Policy Guidelines.

Why are cybercrime convictions low in India? ‘Weak forensics, dark net & cross-border attacks’

Five-year data, spanning 2017-2021, released by Union home ministry in Lok Sabha last week reveal abysmal conviction rates and high pendency in cybercrime cases.

Mewat is India’s latest Jamtara. And sextortion is the new kill

Mewat’s cybercrime industry has no kingpins. It’s a cottage industry of truck drivers, villagers lead sextortion racket.

40% of Indian firms lost $50k-$100k to fraud, economic crime during peak Covid, says PwC report

Silver lining is that there’s decline in fraud due to prevention measures taken up by managements, finds survey. As many as 112 Indian companies were part of global survey.

12 held across India for creating fake websites, email IDs of leading firms & duping people

The police conducted four separate operations where the accused were collecting money from people by creating their company's fake website.

Kolkata is India’s newest, biggest scam zone. Police, YouTubers, mice can’t shut it down

With over Rs 3,000 crore coming in each day, Kolkata is no Jamtara. The scam is international, the scamsters IT experts, the victims American.

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.