The Sentinel

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.

India's Delhi High Court upheld a 2026 Telegram block after the Centre called the app the "new dark web." How Telegram's design built a criminal pipeline, what the Durov arrest changed, and how six governments are now putting it on notice.

On auspicious days, devotional apps, darshan bookings and donations surge, and so does fraud. Drawing on India's I4C advisory for pilgrims, here are the documented scam patterns, the red flags, and how to give and book safely.

When you authorise a scam payment yourself, are banks legally required to refund you? The answer splits sharply by country. A verified, country-by-country comparison of the world's scam-reimbursement laws.

The Reserve Bank of India is engaging 12 Young Professionals at its Mumbai Central Office, including a dedicated Cyber Security & IT Risk post, on a ₹1,50,000/month stipend. Here are the roles, eligibility, terms, and how to apply before the 6 July 2026 deadline.

India's I4C has issued an advisory on the 'Boss Scam', where criminals impersonate the RBI and company executives, plant malware via a .zip/.exe file, hijack the boss's WhatsApp Web session, and instruct finance staff to wire money to mule accounts. Here is how it works and how to stop it.

Delhi's Forensic Science Laboratory is hiring 81 Junior Scientific Assistant (Cyber Forensic) posts with no experience required, plus 125 IT Assistant Grade-A posts. Here is who can apply, the pay, and how to apply before the 15 July 2026 deadline.

The Delhi High Court upheld a nationwide, time-limited block of Telegram over NEET-UG 2026 exam-leak misuse, ruling that Section 69A can switch off an entire app, not just a post. What the judgment said, and why it matters.

You do not need Claude's newest or largest model to do serious security work. With skills, parallel subagents, adversarial verification and the right tooling, a widely available model like Opus produces security analysis that rivals a top-tier frontier model. A practitioner's guide to the building blocks, the workflow, the open Trail of Bits skills, and the guardrails that keep the agent from becoming the vulnerability.