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Pakistan arrests 258 Vietnamese & Chinese scammers in Islamabad | read for names and passports
Sparco Plaza (Gulberg Greens) was the location where all foreigners were operating from. All 258 had entered on visit, tourist and business visas, according to the report. Is Pakistan Becoming the New Hub for Global Cyber-Scam Call Centers?

Disecting X's Algorithm - A Like Is Worth 0.5. A Report Is Worth Minus 234.
X has open-sourced the actual constants that rank its For You feed — not the architecture this time, the numbers. Read them closely and they describe a platform that stopped caring about likes a long time ago.

Timor-Leste Raids Expose Growing Transnational Cyber-Fraud Network: Hundreds of Foreigners Detained as Scam Centers Relocate
Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão said on Thursday that the Government will apply a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal online activities to protect national security and Timor-Leste's reputation. The government is now fast-tracking a cybersecurity package, including a new criminal code for digital crimes, blocking powers, and digital evidence rules. Between raids, police are working with community leaders for intelligence — the same method that led to the Comoro and Bazartete raids.

126 Fake Holy Sites, 21,985 Victims: Gujarat Police Bust India’s Biggest Pilgrimage Booking Scam
Somnath • Dwarka • Tirupati • Shirdi • Rishikesh • Haridwar • Katra • Ujjain • Puri & more — Gujarat Police Crush Nationwide Pilgrimage Booking Scam

AI Agent Security: A Practical Field Guide for Engineers
How Black Hat USA 2026 reframed agents as systems that browse, run code, and move credentials—and what to do about it. Bottom line: agents are not safer chatbots; they are automation with a probabilistic parser on the front. Design them like production automation that accepts hostile input—because they do.
French Gendarmerie Issues Alert Over Fake Police Summons Using DGPN Logos
Citizens warned not to reply or pay as phishing scam circulates under official seal | Report phishing on signal-spam.fr and to PHISHING ([email protected])
Mexico City Government Issues Urgent Alert As Fraudsters Hijack WhatsApp and Bank Accounts Using Your Own Verification Code
"¡NO LO COMPARTAS!" - The New Government Impersonation Scam Targeting Every Phone in CDMX - WhatsApp Account takeover scam

Sahyog: How India Built One of the World's Most Difficult Internet Governance Platforms
Before Sahyog, the I4C catalogued the friction plainly: non-functional contact details on platforms, intermediaries with no Indian office, LEA request portals that were “complex, non-uniform and difficult to navigate,” delayed or absent responses, and no standardised way to track non-compliance.

Sharjah Prosecution Official Highlights Fraud Tactics Targeting the Elderly Amid Rising Cases Across the UAE and Globally
Counselor Mayed Al Darmaki, Head of the Kalba Public Prosecution under the Sharjah Public Prosecution shares insights about evolving tactics used by fraudsters who specifically prey on elderly residents on Sharjah TV’s program Qadiya lil Hiwar (“A Case for Dialogue”) to aired on August 11, 2026.

How Indian States Are Ranked on Cybercrime Performance: The 9 Key Parameters Explained
Telangana led the rankings with near-complete green performance across most metrics, followed closely by Maharashtra, while several others such as Puducherry, Ladakh, and Uttarakhand also featured among the top performers, highlighting varied progress in building a coordinated national response to cyber threats.

Telangana Tops the Nation in Cybercrime Fight: A Motivating Milestone at the PRAGATI Review
Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy warmly congratulated the Telangana Police, the Cyber Security Bureau, and every officer involved for securing the top national rank in cybercrime performance at the PMO’s PRAGATI Review.
How to investigate a faceboook / instagram impersonation case?
Impersonation cases are the most common type of cases in any investigation of Law Enforcement Agencies across the world. The article provides step by step guide on the investigation.

Bihar STF and Sheikhpura Police Crack Down on WhatsApp Hacking Fraudsters
WhatsApp Account takeover, followed by cheating is one of the most common modus operandi across India. Device Binding regulations will be a game-changer in preventing these type of cases from occuring.
Chinese Scammers use fake Traffic Fine messages to target Saint Lucia and the Caribbean
Scammers are impersonating the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force and a counterfeit "DigiGov" portal. The fake domain uses a trick that survives a quick glance — and near-identical messages hit Guyana and Trinidad in the same week.

The Digital Chains: Inside Rajasthan’s Cyber Slavery Pipeline to Scam Compounds, 5 arrested
The investigation, fed by intelligence from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs has so far identified more than 500 people from Rajasthan alone who were sent into these compounds. Many remain unaccounted for.

Dubai Police Cuts Fraud and Cybercrime, Axes 103 Fake Social Media Accounts in Q2
Proactive policing, AI-driven investigations and public awareness deliver measurable results as the emirate aligns with global best practices in digital crime prevention

Singapore Police Force and INTERPOL Disrupt Tycoon2FA Platform - 2 Pakistani nationals arrested
Two Pakistani nationals arrested by Pakistan Authorities after joint investigation into syndicate linked to more than 96,000 victims worldwide. Tycoon2FA was a Phishing-as-a-Service platform.
India's banking regulator (RBI) does not want the CISO Reporting to IT
The 2026 Directions put the CISO's reporting line in writing — outside IT, into risk, with no business targets. The RBI regulates over 9000 financial entities, ranking one of largest in the world.

AI enabled Reverse Engineering vs. Obfuscated SDK: How AI Agents Are Now Cracking Hunter’s Defenses
In the escalating cat-and-mouse game of Android security, one native library has stood out for its brutal effectiveness: libhunter.so from the popular root/hook/tampering detector com.zhenxi.hunter (Hunter). By mid-2026, its combination of heavy obfuscation, dynamic JNI trickery, and multi-layered runtime self-checks had made traditional static analysis painfully slow and error-prone. Manual reverse engineering felt like navigating a minefield blindfolded.
Cooperative Bank Hacking Case, Gujarat Police makes several arrests
Police have delivered a coordinated blow to an international cybercrime syndicate known as “Solar Spider”, which specialises in hacking cooperative banks with weak cybersecurity and laundering proceeds through mule accounts.

CERT-In warns on the Hidden cybersecurity Risks targeting AI Agents and Applications
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) highlights this in its May 2026 Blueprint for Reducing Exposure and Defending against AI-Assisted Vulnerabilities Exploitation in Digital Infrastructure. The document devotes substantial attention not only to AI as an offensive tool but to the adversarial threats facing AI models, inference systems, agents, and integrated workflows.