Cyber Crimes

A woman was allegedly duped of Rs 1.46 lakh by a person she befriended on a social media platform in a customs fraud case, officials said on Wednesday.

A medical doctor from Navi Mumbai has been defrauded of Rs 26.52 lakh by a cyber gang that threatened to implicate him in a fictitious crime involving money laundering and terrorism, police said on Wednesday.

Taking a major step towards ensuring cyber security, Home Minister Amit Shah has announced several new initiatives, including training 5,000 'cyber commandos' and setting up a web-based data registry as well as a portal to share cybercrime info.

In what may turn out to be the biggest cyber financial fraud from an individual reported to Telangana's Cyber Security Bureau, a 75-year-old man has lost Rs 13 crore. The victim had retired as a senior manager of a public sector unit.

Mumbai Police's Cyber Crime unit arrested two men for allegedly creating a website imitating the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's portal and duping people, an official said.

Cyber criminals have duped an IIT Jodhpur professor of nearly Rs 12 lakh after being held under 'digit arrest' for 12 days.

Police probing a cyber crime perpetrated on the pretext of selling "leaked" MP Civil Services Exam (Prelims) question papers were surprised when the suspect turned out to be a class 10 student, who learnt fraud skills from YouTube and wanted to splur

Karnataka today launched a comprehensive cyber security policy 2024 to combat rising levels of cyber-crimes and promote awareness, skill building, public-private partnerships and technology integration to protect the state's digital infrastructure.

A special PMLA court in Ranchi on Saturday convicted five Jamtara residents under the anti-money laundering law for running an "organised" cyber crime syndicate, official sources said.

In a major cyber heist, over Rs 16 crore was cleaned out of Nainital Bank's Noida branch after its servers were hacked and money was transferred to 89 different accounts.

On receiving a suspicious e-notice from a government office on the email, people should check the Internet to authenticate the official named in it and call the mentioned department, the Union Home Ministry's cyber crime unit said today.

A cyber crime team of the Gurugram Police busted a fake call centre involved in duping people on the pretext of providing job loans and arrested 17 people including 15 women in connection with the case.

According to the police, a man filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station East on February 15, 2024, that he was duped of Rs 52.14 lakh in the name of investing in the stock market.

At least 60 Indian nationals part of a group engaged in online financial scams have been arrested by Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department.

A Greater Noida resident has allegedly fallen victim to a cyber fraud that cost him Rs 20.54 lakh after he was lured into the scam through a text message offering a work-from-home job, which involved rating hotels on Google Maps for monetary rewards.

A woman was allegedly duped of Rs 1.46 lakh by a person she befriended on a social media platform in a customs fraud case, officials said on Wednesday.

A medical doctor from Navi Mumbai has been defrauded of Rs 26.52 lakh by a cyber gang that threatened to implicate him in a fictitious crime involving money laundering and terrorism, police said on Wednesday.

Taking a major step towards ensuring cyber security, Home Minister Amit Shah has announced several new initiatives, including training 5,000 'cyber commandos' and setting up a web-based data registry as well as a portal to share cybercrime info.

In what may turn out to be the biggest cyber financial fraud from an individual reported to Telangana's Cyber Security Bureau, a 75-year-old man has lost Rs 13 crore. The victim had retired as a senior manager of a public sector unit.

Mumbai Police's Cyber Crime unit arrested two men for allegedly creating a website imitating the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's portal and duping people, an official said.

Cyber criminals have duped an IIT Jodhpur professor of nearly Rs 12 lakh after being held under 'digit arrest' for 12 days.

Police probing a cyber crime perpetrated on the pretext of selling "leaked" MP Civil Services Exam (Prelims) question papers were surprised when the suspect turned out to be a class 10 student, who learnt fraud skills from YouTube and wanted to splur

Karnataka today launched a comprehensive cyber security policy 2024 to combat rising levels of cyber-crimes and promote awareness, skill building, public-private partnerships and technology integration to protect the state's digital infrastructure.

A special PMLA court in Ranchi on Saturday convicted five Jamtara residents under the anti-money laundering law for running an "organised" cyber crime syndicate, official sources said.

In a major cyber heist, over Rs 16 crore was cleaned out of Nainital Bank's Noida branch after its servers were hacked and money was transferred to 89 different accounts.

On receiving a suspicious e-notice from a government office on the email, people should check the Internet to authenticate the official named in it and call the mentioned department, the Union Home Ministry's cyber crime unit said today.

A cyber crime team of the Gurugram Police busted a fake call centre involved in duping people on the pretext of providing job loans and arrested 17 people including 15 women in connection with the case.

According to the police, a man filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station East on February 15, 2024, that he was duped of Rs 52.14 lakh in the name of investing in the stock market.

At least 60 Indian nationals part of a group engaged in online financial scams have been arrested by Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigations Department.

A Greater Noida resident has allegedly fallen victim to a cyber fraud that cost him Rs 20.54 lakh after he was lured into the scam through a text message offering a work-from-home job, which involved rating hotels on Google Maps for monetary rewards.