Cyber Criminals

A Delhi Police special cell busted a nexus of cyber criminals involved in siphoning off about Rs 70 lakh from a large number of Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN) of Border Security Force employees and arrested the mastermind behind it.

A fraud of Rs 300 crore through 15 fake Chinese applications has come to light after the Uttarakhand police busted a syndicate of cyber criminals where callers were offered low-interest rate loans.

North Korea’s notorious Lazarous Group has been been deploying ‘decoy websites’ pretending to be legit NFT projects, to get them to engage with these infected sites. Hackers utilised multiple tokens, such as WETH, USDC, DAI, and UNI, etc. in their phishing attacks.

Kaspersky, in its new report, has claimed that Bitcoin is set to lose its value as a digital asset for ransomware negotiations and payments as regulations around the crypto sector increase around the world. The report also noted that the scammers are still expected to continue swarming to the crypto sector.

The Discord server of the famed NFT artist Beeple became a target for cyber criminals, stirring an alarm in the NFT community. The attackers infected the URL to Beeple’s Discord server and have been directing people to an alternate ‘CollabLand wallet draining’ Discord server. The NFT artist seems to have executed some damage control protocols...

A senior IAS officer posted in Ladakh on Thursday alerted the people that a cyber criminal was using his mobile number to defraud people.

Crypto criminals are swarming to Twitter to hunt for their potential victims, a cyber security researcher popular by the name of ‘Serpent’ has reiterated on Twitter. From crypto recovery scams to honeypot and fake reward techniques, scammers have stepped-up their game to churn boatloads of money wrapped as digital assets from innocent investors...

Oasis, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform on Thursday, August 12 announced that it is blocking crypto wallets that are sanctioned and marked as high risks by the government. Oasis is also tightening scrutiny around wallets that have a history with receiving funds via crypto mixers such as Tornado Cash. The step comes in the backdrop of back-to...

In a frontend attack, cyber criminals compromised Curve Finance, which is a decentralised exchanged launched in 2020. As per Curve developers, the Curve.fi nameserver site had suffered the breach. The stolen funds were deposited to the FixedFload crypto exchange to launder them, but the exchange managed to secure ETH worth $191,088 (roughly Rs. 1.5...

CERT-In has found multiple vulnerabilities of high severity in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Google ChromeOS, and Mozilla Firefox internet browser, which can enable a cyber attacker to perform denial-of-service attacks. Luckily, they can be fixed by installing software updates.

A total of 11 individuals in the US have been charged with whipping-up a crypto pyramid scheme, defrauding “millions of retailers”, and churning over $300 million (roughly Rs. 2,359 crore). Carolyn Welshhans, Acting Chief of the SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit called Forsage a fraudulent pyramid scheme launched on a massive scale and aggre...

The percentage of funds passing through crypto mixers from the custody of cyber criminals touched its highest value of $51.8 million (roughly Rs. 413 crore) in April 2022. As per a Chainalysis study, nearly 10 percent of all funds sent from illicit addresses are sent to mixers in order to make the transactions between two wallets anonymous.

Haryana Police has blocked nearly Rs 7 crore from being transferred to the accounts of cyber criminals between January and June this year while acting on the complaints of the public, a senior official said on Saturday.

A lucrative offer to redeem cash points on credit card cost a Noida resident dearly as he lost over Rs 4.50 lakh to cyber criminals who duped him by posing as bank representatives, according to police.

According to Japan Times, the revised Penal Code raised the fine for online insults to up to JPY 300,000 ($2,200). This is a significant increase from the previous punishments of detention for fewer than 30 days and a fine of up to JPY 10,000 ($75).

A Delhi Police special cell busted a nexus of cyber criminals involved in siphoning off about Rs 70 lakh from a large number of Permanent Retirement Account Number (PRAN) of Border Security Force employees and arrested the mastermind behind it.

A fraud of Rs 300 crore through 15 fake Chinese applications has come to light after the Uttarakhand police busted a syndicate of cyber criminals where callers were offered low-interest rate loans.

North Korea’s notorious Lazarous Group has been been deploying ‘decoy websites’ pretending to be legit NFT projects, to get them to engage with these infected sites. Hackers utilised multiple tokens, such as WETH, USDC, DAI, and UNI, etc. in their phishing attacks.

Kaspersky, in its new report, has claimed that Bitcoin is set to lose its value as a digital asset for ransomware negotiations and payments as regulations around the crypto sector increase around the world. The report also noted that the scammers are still expected to continue swarming to the crypto sector.

The Discord server of the famed NFT artist Beeple became a target for cyber criminals, stirring an alarm in the NFT community. The attackers infected the URL to Beeple’s Discord server and have been directing people to an alternate ‘CollabLand wallet draining’ Discord server. The NFT artist seems to have executed some damage control protocols...

A senior IAS officer posted in Ladakh on Thursday alerted the people that a cyber criminal was using his mobile number to defraud people.

Crypto criminals are swarming to Twitter to hunt for their potential victims, a cyber security researcher popular by the name of ‘Serpent’ has reiterated on Twitter. From crypto recovery scams to honeypot and fake reward techniques, scammers have stepped-up their game to churn boatloads of money wrapped as digital assets from innocent investors...

Oasis, a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform on Thursday, August 12 announced that it is blocking crypto wallets that are sanctioned and marked as high risks by the government. Oasis is also tightening scrutiny around wallets that have a history with receiving funds via crypto mixers such as Tornado Cash. The step comes in the backdrop of back-to...

In a frontend attack, cyber criminals compromised Curve Finance, which is a decentralised exchanged launched in 2020. As per Curve developers, the Curve.fi nameserver site had suffered the breach. The stolen funds were deposited to the FixedFload crypto exchange to launder them, but the exchange managed to secure ETH worth $191,088 (roughly Rs. 1.5...

CERT-In has found multiple vulnerabilities of high severity in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Google ChromeOS, and Mozilla Firefox internet browser, which can enable a cyber attacker to perform denial-of-service attacks. Luckily, they can be fixed by installing software updates.

A total of 11 individuals in the US have been charged with whipping-up a crypto pyramid scheme, defrauding “millions of retailers”, and churning over $300 million (roughly Rs. 2,359 crore). Carolyn Welshhans, Acting Chief of the SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit called Forsage a fraudulent pyramid scheme launched on a massive scale and aggre...

The percentage of funds passing through crypto mixers from the custody of cyber criminals touched its highest value of $51.8 million (roughly Rs. 413 crore) in April 2022. As per a Chainalysis study, nearly 10 percent of all funds sent from illicit addresses are sent to mixers in order to make the transactions between two wallets anonymous.

Haryana Police has blocked nearly Rs 7 crore from being transferred to the accounts of cyber criminals between January and June this year while acting on the complaints of the public, a senior official said on Saturday.

A lucrative offer to redeem cash points on credit card cost a Noida resident dearly as he lost over Rs 4.50 lakh to cyber criminals who duped him by posing as bank representatives, according to police.

According to Japan Times, the revised Penal Code raised the fine for online insults to up to JPY 300,000 ($2,200). This is a significant increase from the previous punishments of detention for fewer than 30 days and a fine of up to JPY 10,000 ($75).