The scamster involved Maaya in a conversation, discussing the item and the location they were supposed to perform the deal. He said he has sent her a “request on PhonePe for the advance amount.”
Tag: Cyber Crime
Hyderabad: Man held for extorting and sexually harassing Tinder match
The accused befriended the woman through mobile app Tinder and it was later discovered that the man was not a doctor but was a BTech dropout
Gujarat: Youth arrested for sending explicit pictures to ex-girlfriend and her friends
The accused made an Instagram profile and shared explicit content to the victim’s friend on learning that she had been seeing other men
Kerala: Police arrest 21 for sharing explicit pictures of children on social media
Police seized several laptops, mobile phones and other gadgets from 29 locations during the raid
Mumbai: In order to get refund for online purchase, woman losses Rs 75,000
The customer executive woman on the call asked the 26-year-old to send her bank account number and IFSC code
Impotent man uploads nude videos of wife after she refused to pay for his surgery
The woman has decided to call off her marriage after the incident
Newsd Impact: RBI cautions of fraud via UPI and AnyDesk App
Reserve Bank of India warned banks of digital banking scam
Cyber Crime: Trusting a Google Ad costs huge money to a hospital worker over Google Pay
A New Ashok Nagar, Delhi, resident has lost his hard-earned money to an online-fraud
Delhi police detain teenager for hacking UPSC website
Delhi police finally get hold of a 17-year-old teenager who hacked the official website of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on September 27. The website upsc.gov.in was hacked on September 10 for few hours and as a result, the homepage started to display the image of popular cartoon character[Read More…]
Cyber Crime: Three arrested for duping Shah Rukh Khan of Rs 75 lakh
Three held in the charges of cheating Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan of 75 lakhs from his bank account in 2013. The Giridih district police raided in Ahilyapur police station area and detained three criminals alleged of ‘cyber crimes’. The head of the gangster group Bajrangi Kumar Mandal and Ajay[Read More…]
Hackers bank-loot Rs 94 crore in ‘most liveable Pune’
While Pune was recently entitled ‘most liveable city’ under Ease of Living Index, city’s Cosmos Bank, hailed as one of the oldest cooperative banks in India, was attacked and transactions of nearly 94.42 crore have been carried out in bank accounts outside India. The officials of the cooperative bank located in[Read More…]
WhatsApp concerned about fake messages circulation, announced to fund research in the case
Due to increasing number of reported killings, lead by rapid and wide spread of misinformation across the country through WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service said it would fund research to find out why misinformation spreads on the platform like wildfire in India. WhatAapp, which has over 200 million monthly active[Read More…]
Did you know that your router could secretly leak sensitive data?
Scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to secretly draw off sensitive files, passwords or other critical data from any common router. The researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel explained how functionality light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can be quietly overridden by malware they developed (code named[Read More…]
No advice needed from Odisha BJP says Pitroda
On Saturday, Sam Pitroda lashed out at the Odisha BJP unit for demanding his removal as the Technical Advisor to the state government in the wake of WannaCry ransomware attack. BJP’s state unit Vice-President Samir Mohanty had recently alleged Pitroda of his involvement with the National Herald case, demanding that he[Read More…]
Zomato hacked; user payment details remain safe
Just when the world was paranoid about the cyber threats, Zomato has admitted that 17 million usernames and passwords have been stolen by hackers from its platform. However, it further added that information relating to payment remains safe them. Notably, this is the second breach of Zomato’s system the past[Read More…]
Ransomware threat: No serious impact in India
On Monday, the Centre said that India is not a victim of the ransomware attack, adding that the government is keeping a very close watch to ensure that these attacks can be addressed in an effective manner. “As far as this cyber issue is concerned, the Government of India is[Read More…]
Ransomware attack hits 74 countries, says Kaspersky
Over 45,000 attacks of ransomware were recorded in 74 countries around the world, mostly in Russia. Kaspersky Lab, the cyber security and anti-virus provider’s Global Research and Analysis Team said, in these attacks, data is encrypted with the extension “.WCRY” added to the filenames. The attack, called as ‘WannaCry,’ is[Read More…]
The spine chilling case of OML founder’s cyber-stalker
Vijay Nair, an influential media entrepreneur who is known for his innovative start-up: Only Much Louder (OML), has recently made the case for him being stalked on the internet, public. In a detailed report by Huffington post, the nuances of the case has been laid bare. Nair’s case of being[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Over a million Aadhaar numbers published on Jharkhand govt website
In Jharkhand, a glitch revealed the digital identities of more than a million citizens on a website maintained by Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. Throwing many’s privacy into confusion, the glitch also revealed their names, addresses, Aadhaar numbers and bank account details of the beneficiaries of Jharkhand’s old age pension[Read More…]
Bangladesh trains teenage girls to fight cyber crime
In order to tackle cyber-crime, Bangladesh on Tuesday began training thousands of teenage girls to fight the hysteric rise of social media-related abuses mostly targeting adolescents. As per the police, the online harassment levels have alarmingly rose in Bangladesh lately and it mostly targets young women. More than 10,000 school-age[Read More…]
Crackdown on people threatening govt officials
RBI sets up a committee to review cyber threats
Rajnath Singh points to cyber terrorism as the biggest threat to society
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on Friday, said that cyber terrorism was one of the biggest threats to the society. Singh was addressing the Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer Trainees of 2015 batch, who came to meet him. “There is a steep rise in the cyber-crime these days. Cyber terrorism is[Read More…]