The Police said that Sonam Kapoor's father-in-law Harish Ahuja has become a victim of a highly innovative cyber fraud. The operation to nab the criminals has been on since July last year and so far 10 have been arrested.
An engineering student who is the creator of the 'Bulli Bai' app was arrested by the Delhi Police from Assam. The creator was shown no regret for his action during the interrogation. The app was created to defame women of a particular community.
An unauthorised third-party socially engineered a customer support employee by phone and obtained access to certain customer support systems of the stock-trading app last week.
HDFC Bank, in its complaint, alleged that in all 66 attempts were made to access the internet banking of the account.
Based on the technical details brought out during investigation, it was also found that a large number of people across the country have become victims of these fake websites.
The cyber cell, which includes 16 cyber police stations across UP, has lodged 528 FIRs since it came into being a year ago and solved 126 cases, leading to the arrest of 385 accused.
The Delhi Police's Cyber Crime Branch on Tuesday said that it is working to get blocked the fake login page of ICICI Bank which was trying to get details of the customers, and also warned people not to share information without verification.
A 32-year-old man in Nagpur in Maharashtra has lost Rs 1.81 lakh moments after he shared the OTP for purchasing medicines online over the phone, police said on Tuesday.
The increased use of online gaming has brought with it a slew of challenges and risks that include exposure of children to inappropriate content.
As per the complaint, Sahoo put up an advertisement on the digital marketplace, Krishify to sell his cow on March 11 when the scamster posing as a potential buyer duped him.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police is planning to hire forensic experts for assistance in the detection of cyber and financial frauds, as well as in collecting evidence from the crime scene.
According to sources, the woman Rekha (name changed), a resident of Malviya Nagar, alleged that the culprit harassed and extorted her by threatening to upload her nude picture on her Instagram account after hacking the same.
Twenty-four per cent of the complaints were related to the social media, primarily online harassment, and the rest 14 per cent were related to crimes such as hacking and data theft.
Hyderabad saw a 10 per cent reduction in the overall crime rate but cybercrime saw an increase of 75 per cent during 2020, police said on Monday.
The cyber cell unit of Delhi Police arrested a fraudster for creating fake Instagram profile of a production house.
Increase in attacks targeting and leveraging routers will continue as cybercriminals are able to easily monetise these infections in secondary attacks, warns a new report by global cybersecurity company Trend Micro.
A cybercriminal has put on sale records of 4.75 crore Indians claimed to be sourced from online directory Truecaller for about Rs 75,000, according to online intelligence firm Cyble.
Over 5,000 suspect emails were reported to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre by Wednesday, just a day after the new cyber crime reporting service was launched to check fake coronavirus-related messages tricking people into online harm.
Two executives in Kolkata who were working from home and using the Zoom video calling app, allegedly received ransomware threats, demanding payments in bitcoins on Wednesday. The hackers demanded ransom to release the data which were encrypted from their computers. Both of them were using Zoom.
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