Cybercrimes

Former Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Gujral was allegedly duped of Rs 7.8 crore after scammers impersonated him on an online messaging application and tricked his company's financial staff into transferring funds, police said on Thursday. Naresh Gujral, 78, is the son of the late Inder Kumar Gujral, who served as India's 12th prime minister from 1997 to 1998. An e-FIR in connection with the fraud was filed with the Delhi Police on Tuesday, prompting an investigation. According to police, the fraud occurred between June 12 and June 16. During this period, the scammers created an account on an online messaging platform using Naresh Gujral's display picture to impersonate him. They sent messages instructing one of his employees to transfer funds via Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) to a specified bank account for what appeared to be urgent business-related purposes. Believing the instructions were legitimate, the employee, who had been given financial access by Gujral, executed four separat

Bharat Bluff is filled with first-person accounts of scams that allow readers to comprehend the gravity of India's scam economy beyond data

Sharma and Anand, who have earned global recognition for their illustrated journalistic account, take Aditi Phadnis into the sinister world of cybercrime in India

Overall crime dips in 2024, but economic offences and cybercrime rise above pre-Covid levels, signalling a shift in India's crime pattern

Other regions identified as major hotspots include Haryana, Delhi, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu

Digital attacks target critical infrastructure, prompt calls for more robust regulatory framework

The GCA chief noted a disturbing trend in the volume and sophistication of digital crimes, which serves as a critical backdrop to the summit's focus on responsible AI

Cambodian authorities have uncovered a scam centre featuring a fake Indian police station set-up, allegedly used by fraudsters to carry out "digital arrest" scams targeting victims in India

The Supreme Court observed that digital scams have caused losses exceeding ?52,000 crore for Indians, an amount larger than the annual budgets of some smaller states

A pan-India cyber investment fraud allegedly involving overseas links was busted with the arrest of 12 people from six states, police said on Saturday. The accused were arrested over the past 24 hours from Odisha, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh for allegedly running a nationwide cyber investment racket through WhatsApp groups, SP (Rural) Amrit Jain said. Working in coordination with the Ministry of Telecommunications, the Aligarh cyber crime cell identified around 600 WhatsApp groups that were allegedly being used to lure and cheat investors across the country, Jain said. Police claimed that timely action helped prevent an estimated fraud of about Rs 500 crore that could have affected more than 1.5 lakh people nationwide. The case came to light after Dinesh Sharma, a retired deputy general manager of Punjab National Bank, approached the cyber crime cell on January 31 and reported that he had been cheated of over Rs 11 lakh through a WhatsApp-based .

Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive government contracting documents to the public version of ChatGPT last summer

The new features called "Strict Account Settings," is a one-click button in WhatsApp's settings that activates a series of defenses

An alarming trend is being registered increasingly as the cybercriminals are exploiting the call forwarding feature on mobile phones to secretly reroute incoming calls

The complaints state that TriZetto, which provides healthcare claims, failed to protect personal data and did not inform affected people in a timely manner after a cyberattack

According to the review, the government is on track to make India free from Left-Wing Extremism by March 31, 2026

The roadmap was finalised at a high-level review meeting chaired by Director General of Police (DGP) OP Singh at the Haryana Police Academy (HPA), Madhuban

India's cybersecurity product revenues are expected to grow to around USD 6 billion by 2026, the Data Security Council of India said on Thursday. IT industry body Nasscom's data security arm has estimated Indian cybersecurity product companies earned revenue of USD 4.46 billion in 2025. "India cybersecurity product companies revenue is set for healthy growth in 2026. It is estimated to reach USD 5.98 billion in 2026," DSCI CEO Vinayak Godse said at Annual Information Security Summit 2025. He said that the segment has grown 4 times in the last 5 years. "The segment grew 25 per cent year-on-year in 2025," Godse said. He said artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important factor that will have an impact on the segment. "It is a greenfield for the segment. We are still trying to figure out the impact of AI. We are also seeing the geopolitics scenario at present has made the market conducive for India cybersecurity companies," Godse said. He said India cybersecurity firms have bee

The government mandated all manufacturers to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi mobile application is pre-installed on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India

Delhi Police carried out a sweeping two-day crackdown under Operation CyHawk, detaining over 4,400 suspects and disrupting major cyber fraud networks across the capital

Speaking at Business Standard's BFSI Summit, experts highlighted the need for a zero-trust approach, calling it a critical requirement