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Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. The South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), together with the Digital Asset Exchange Association (DAXA) are rolling out unified rules for withdrawal across all registered crypto exchanges. From now on, all local crypto exchanges are being forced to have one tough, standardized withdrawal‑delay regime by South Korean financial ...Read More >
Mumbai: A disturbing case of alleged harassment and attempted fraud has surfaced in the city after a motorist claimed he was chased by a group posing as loan recovery agents on the Eastern Express Highway. The incident, which took place in broad daylight, has raised concerns about public safety and the handling of such complaints by authorities. The victim, Sarabjit Chadha, shared his ordeal through a detailed thread on the social media platform X, describing how he was pursued by five unidenti ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has arrested a 49-year-old restaurateur for allegedly providing mule accounts to scammers involved in digital-arrest cases. Police said the accused, Mohammad Javed, is the son of the founder of well-known restaurant chain Khan Chacha, which was later acquired by another businessman.Javed's brother, too, has been bound down in connection with the case. Police said the case involves fraudulent transactions totalling around Rs 3.3 crore, a part of which was routed through th ...Read More >
Delhi Police CyHawk 4.0 detains 8371, arrests over 1400 in major cyber fraud crackdown, exposes Rs 519 crore scams with global links, seizes key evidence and freezes funds In one of its largest-ever crackdowns on cybercrime, the Delhi Police launched a massive, coordinated operation across the national capital, detaining thousands of suspects and uncovering fraud networks linked to scams worth over Rs 519 crore nationwide. The operation, dubbed "CyHawk 4.0," involved simultaneous raids across ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi Police has arrested over 600 people and rounded up more than 8,300 suspects during its Operation CyHawk 4.0, a large-scale crackdown on cybercrime conducted on April 6 and 7, officials said on Wednesday. A senior police officer said the son of a Delhi-based eatery chain owner is also among arrestees. "Due to losses in business, the son of the famous eater chain's owner provided his bank account to move proceeds of cybercrime on a commission basis, where he rece ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): In one of the largest coordinated operations against cybercrime in recent years, Delhi Police have dealt a significant blow to online fraudsters operating from the national capital under a city-wide crackdown named Operation CyHawk. As per the release, conceived and directed by Commissioner of Police Satish Golchha, IPS, the operation marked a decisive shift from reactive measures to dismantling the entire cybercrime ecosystem. The month-long intelligence gathe ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar in a money laundering case linked to the AIADMK's 'two leaves' election symbol dispute. However, he will remain in jail as several other cases against him are still pending. This is the 27th case in which Chandrasekhar has secured bail, out of a total of 31 cases registered against him. Granting relief, Special Judge Gogne said, "Liberty being the most sacrosanct norm in our constitution, the court cannot pr ...Read More >
Delhi court grants bail to Sukesh Chandrasekhar in money laundering case related to the AIADMK's "two leaves" election symbol, reports PTI news agency. Chandrasekhar was accused of allegedly striking a deal of ₹50 crore to help the AIADMK faction keep the 'two leaves' poll symbol, regarding which a case was registered and the middleman arrested in 2017. The case pertained to an alleged attempt to bribe an Election Commission official by AIADMK (Amma) leader TTV Dinakaran for trying to get the ...Read More >
During the investigation, police uncovered a well-organised network operating across multiple states with links to international cyber fraud syndicates, particularly in Cambodia. "We have so far identified over 260 bank accounts linked to more than 100 fictitious companies used to channel the proceeds of crime. The total number of complaints linked to the syndicate stands at 2,567," police said. The key accused, Karan Kajaria, was apprehended at Kolkata airport on April 3 after a Look Out Circ ...Read More >
Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A series of cyber fraud incidents have been reported across Indore, with fraudsters duping victims of large sums through online scams, impersonation and hacking techniques from June 2024 to March 2026. Following orders from Commissioner of Police Santosh Kumar Singh, Indore police registered nearly two dozen FIRs on Friday and initiated investigations. A businessman was duped of Rs 5.41 lakh while attempting to purchase an Rs 899 body massager online. After his initial ...Read More >
Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. Years of crypto scams running havoc on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, have resulted in the implementation of a "kill switch" for users talking about crypto. The announcement of the toughest anti-crypto scam measure to date was made by Nikita Bier, X's Head of Product, through a post on the same social media on Wednesday. The measure was brought to public attent ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 2: Government officials on the island of Saint Helena and the spokesperson of the British Overseas Territories have confirmed that Jonathan the tortoise, the world's oldest known living land animal, is alive and in good health following a viral death hoax on Wednesday, April 1. The misinformation, which spread rapidly across social media platforms, was traced back to a fraudulent X (formerly Twitter) account posing as Jonathan's longtime veterinarian to solicit cryptocurrency donat ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked news channel Republic TV and its editor-in-chief, Arnab Goswami, to avoid "hitting below the belt" while covering the Enforcement Directorate's (ED's) investigations into companies linked to industrialist Anil Ambani. A single-judge bench of justice Milind Jadhav orally told Goswami and Republic TV to "bring down the rhetoric" and refrain from "giving superlative taglines to news" that could be seen as attacking an individual. "Please run storie ...Read More >
Pawa Ruia was arrested from near a five-star hotel in New Town area (File) ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Pawan Ruia was arrested for alleged involvement in a Rs 300 crore online fraud * A senior citizen was cheated of Rs 93 lakh after installing a fraudulent APK file * Funds were traced to accounts of shell companies linked to Ruia family members Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Kolkata: Kolkata-based industrialist Pawan Ruia has ...Read More >
Gurgaon: A cyber fraud module operating an illegal SIM box network -- with links to the Philippines and Cambodia -- has been busted in the city.Five people have been arrested during the last two weeks, police said on Wednesday, adding that the accused were nabbed from different locations, including Gurgaon, Kasganj, Ahmedabad and Jalgaon.Investigators said the equipment -- SIM boxes (GSM gateways) -- was used for routing and diverting calls over the internet, masking the origin of calls and enab ...Read More >
Gurugram: Gurugram police arrested five key operatives of a major international cyber fraud network with links to the Philippines and Cambodia. The accused, arrested during raids at Gurugram's U-Block and Chakarpur localities, ran a sophisticated SIM box-based racket used for digital arrest scams. They operated a transnational syndicate that bypassed India's telecom systems to route fraudulent calls and extort victims. Addressing mediapersons, Gurugram Police DCP East Gaurav Rajpurohit said, " ...Read More >
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Crypto exchange CoinDCX on March 30 announced the launch of a ₹100 crore Digital Suraksha Network (DSN), an initiative aimed at tackling cyber fraud and strengthening trust in India's digital finance ecosystem. The initiative will support independent research on digital fraud, fund the development of new standards, and build tools such as an open Fraud Intelligence API. It also plans to publish quarterly "State of Digital Trust" reports and support training programmes for state cybercrime cell ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 1: Santander UK has issued an urgent warning regarding pet scams to prospective pet owners following a dramatic rise in fraudulent listings on social media and online marketplaces selling pets. New data from the bank's "Scamtracker" reveals that nearly Euro 160,000 was stolen from customers between January and March 2026 alone. This represents a five-fold increase compared to the Euro 29,735 reported lost in the final quarter of 2025, signalling a sophisticated new wave of authoris ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The western region cyber police arrested an autorickshaw driver for allowing a cyber fraud racket to use his account to divert defrauded money from an Andheri based senior citizen who was cheated of ₹1.54 crore. The victim, a 69-year-old resident of Andheri who retired from a private firm, was trapped by a cyber criminal who called him in December 2025 and claimed he had been circulating obscene clips for extortion. Officers from the cyber cell said the frauds told the elderly they we ...Read More >
Discover how Indian security agencies are leveraging open-source intelligence and artificial intelligence to gather crucial information from public sources and social media, all while ensuring privacy is protected. Key PointsIndian security agencies use open-source intelligence from public sources, including social media, for intelligence gathering.The Home Ministry assures that no private or personal information is gathered, thus preventing privacy violations.Data scraping is used to monitor s ...Read More >
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], March 31: Truecaller, the leading global platform for safe and trusted communication, today announced that it has surpassed 500 million users worldwide, marking a significant milestone in the company's mission to build trust in communication. Also Read | IPL 2026: British Broadcast Engineer Ian Williams Langford Found Dead in Mumbai's Trident Hotel Room. The platform continues to see significant user growth, adding over 50 million users in 2025 alone. Truecaller ...Read More >
NewsVoir Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], March 31: Truecaller, the leading global platform for safe and trusted communication, today announced that it has surpassed 500 million users worldwide, marking a significant milestone in the company's mission to build trust in communication. The platform continues to see significant user growth, adding over 50 million users in 2025 alone. Truecaller has crossed 350 million in India alone and 150 million users outside of India as demand for protection ag ...Read More >
A 73-year-old retired superintendent of the central excise department in Mumbai was cheated out of Rs 3.77 lakh after a cyber fraudster, posing as a Mahanagar Gas Limited official, made him install a malicious application on his smartphone, the police said. According to the police, the complainant lives in Mulund (East) with his wife. On March 14, he received WhatsApp messages from an unknown number claiming his gas bill was unpaid and warning that his connection would be disconnected by the ev ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31: In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber Cell arrested a ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber ...Read More >
From April 1, 2026, RBI new rules for digital payments will change how Indians make online transactions. If you use UPI, cards or wallets, expect extra security checks. The Reserve Bank of India is making two-factor authentication mandatory, which means OTP alone will no longer be enough. Many users are searching for RBI digital payment rules April 1, what changes in UPI payments, and how this affects daily transactions. While the process may feel slightly longer, the goal is simple, make digit ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Meta has announced new tools on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp to help protect against scams. It is using artificial intelligence (AI) to combat impersonation, deceptive links, suspicious friend requests, and more. In a new blog post, Meta said that they have built an advanced AI system that can analyse multiple signals, including text, images, and the surrounding context, to spot a range of sophisticated scam patterns. Detecting Impersonation - People, Brands, Domains: Meta says ...Read More >
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City police have arrested two persons for allegedly collecting bank accounts from the public and using them for cyber fraud. The accused have been identified as Mohammed Aneesh (30) from Kasaba Bengre, Kuloor Post, and Saleeth Ahmed M (32) from Surathkal. According to the Cyber Command Unit, a complainant Mohammed Sinan approached Mangaluru City Cyber Crime police station on Wednesday and alleged that the accused had taken his bank account under the pretext of using it for ...Read More >
Mumbai, December 17: Popular gamer and YouTuber Payal Dhare, known as Payal Gaming, issued a statement on Wednesday, December 17, to address a controversy involving a viral video. In her statement, she expressed her distress over the situation, clarifying that the content circulating online - which many have identified as an AI-generated deepfake - has no connection to her. Payal Gaming wrote: "I never expected to have to speak publicly about something so personal and distressing. Over the past ...Read More >
Bengaluru-based software professional was forced to sell her flat and two residential plots to meet their demands. As per the report, she was working with a software company and living with her 10-year-old son in a flat in Vignan Nagar. In yet another shocking case of cyber fraud in Bengaluru, a software professional was allegedly trapped in a "digital arrest" and cheated of nearly Rs 2 crore. According to a report by NDTV, the victim, Babita Das, was forced to sell her flat and two residentia ...Read More >
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