Cyber crime

Cyber Crimes In India Witness 572% Increase In Last 3 Years! 14 Lakh Cases In 2021 Recorded By Govt Between 2018 and 2021, there was an over five-fold jump in the number of cybercrime and fraud incidents recorded by the government, as…

Online scammers are targeting people by sending them malicious links on Whatsapp. A new online scam has been doing rounds, this time on the instant messaging app Whatsapp. Scammers, in disguise of executives from online delivery…

The city has seen exponential growth in the number of cybercrime complaints in the past five years. Rs 3.57 lakh has been returned to a man in Pune after he had lost it to cyber criminals in an online credit card fraud. The…

The case was first revealed by a 78-year-old Udaipur resident who filed a complaint on the CyberSafe app, saying that he had lost Rs 6.5 lakh online. A massive online scam was unearthed by the Union Home Ministry in concert with several…

Cyber fraudsters are sending remote device control apps to some people ordering liquor online. According to police, a man from Pune, Maharashtra, had Rs 1.5 lakh deducted from his bank account after conducting an online transaction to…

Mobikwik users' sensitive data hacked and up for sale on dark web. In what is known to be the ‘largest KYC data leak in history’, the Gurugram-based mobile payments company, Mobikwik’s servers have been breached and a massive data of…

5 Critical Facts To Know Before Pursuing A Career In Cybersecurity Guest post by Dr Priyadarsan Patra, Dean, School of Computer Science at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) Cybersecurity has been one of the most…

Juspay data leak compromises card data details leaked for 10 crore Indian cardholders. In what appears to possibly be India’s biggest data leak, in terms of volumes of users affected, the data of about 10 crore cardholders have been…

IRCTC App Hacked! Data Of 900,000 IRCTC Users Being Sold Online; Is Your Data Safe? Last year, user data leaked from the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) website of more than 9 lakh users has resurfaced on the…

Fraudsters Exploit Amazon Loophole To Rob Rs 3 Lakh: How They Did This Fraud? Amazon's 'Great Indian Festival' is coming up with exciting offers, discounts, and more! Many people wait for this sale every year to buy smartphones, TVs,…