The Sentinel

The Embassy of India in Madrid warns of caller-ID-spoofing scam calls: an imposter posing as 'Rupesh Sharma' phones Indian students demanding personal documents.

Ukraine's cyber police dismantled a Kyiv call centre that cold-called Americans with fake crypto investments, stealing over $500,000 from 20+ US victims.

The 2026 World Cup is live, and so are the scams: fake betting apps, malware 'free streams' and cloned FIFA ticket sites are after your data and money.

Lucknow police busted an international call centre that scammed US citizens with fake FBI/FTC threats and crypto. 119 arrested, 103 laptops seized.

India's I4C warns that criminals who steal or find an iPhone send fake Apple 'Find My' texts to trick victims into entering their Apple ID password and one-time code, letting thieves disable Activation Lock and resell the device. Here is how the trap works and how to stay safe.

A multi-agency joint advisory warns that Akira ransomware now threatens critical infrastructure and has claimed roughly $244 million, breaking in mainly through VPNs without MFA and unpatched Cisco, SonicWall and Veeam flaws. Here is how it operates and the official mitigations.

NFSU's Delhi Campus is hiring six cyber security and digital forensics posts on contract. Pay, eligibility and how to apply before the 5 July 2026 deadline.

Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions a year, and AI now writes the love letters, fakes the photos, and even joins the video calls. Drawing on the FBI, FTC, INTERPOL, the UK and Australia, here is how the modern romance scam works, why so many victims stay silent, and the red flags that give it away.

After a scam comes a colder one. Fake 'fund recovery' agents, fictitious law firms and bogus officials promise to claw back what you lost, for a fee, and steal again. The FBI logged $1.4 billion lost to recovery scams in 2025. Here is how the second scam works, and the one rule that stops it.

Scammers stole an estimated $1 trillion worldwide last year, and AI has made them faster, cheaper and far more convincing. These are the seven fastest-growing scam tactics of 2026 — cloned voices, fake police calls, 'task' jobs, toll texts — and the simple move that beats every one.

You don't request a chargeback from Visa or Mastercard, you dispute with your bank, which runs it through the network. Here's how chargebacks work across Visa, Mastercard, RuPay and Diners Club, a step-by-step US filing tutorial, and the statutory backstops in India, the US and the UK.

Ahmedabad City Police's Cyber Crime Branch has opened registration for Kanad S.H.I.E.L.D. 2026, a cybersecurity hackathon inviting startups, researchers and students to build real-world tools for policing and cybercrime investigation.