Cybercrime Trends

The accused obtained FSSAI certificates for kitchens that never cooked a meal, self-placed orders from stolen cards, marked them delivered and pocketed Swiggy's settlements — a case that puts merchant-onboarding fraud squarely on the foodtech agenda

Investigators seized 100 mobile handsets, 669 SIM cards, 120 batteries, chargers, a CPU, Wi-Fi router, and other devices while tracing ₹22.30 lakh in suspected fraud proceeds across multiple bank accounts.

Guests are getting messages with real booking details and a link to confirm their reservation. We took one link apart: how the kit hides, who it targets, what to do.

One threat mail to the Gujarat Secretariat led police to two men in Bihar and Jharkhand; 5,13,847 e-mail accounts with passwords recovered. The funding and the instructions, investigators allege, came from Bangladesh.

Fake iPhone 18 Pro pre-order sites promise cheaper, faster phones and deliver nothing. How they work, the red flags, and how to check a site before you pay.

Fake iPhone 18 Pro pre-order sites promise cheaper, faster phones and deliver nothing. How they work, the red flags, and how to check a site before you pay.

A Lumen Database filing shows Google was asked to kill Gmail accounts used to impersonate Fubon Group chairman Cai Mingzhong and a Taichung mutual-aid chief. The pitch is almost polite: create a chat group, send the QR code, then “advance” a company payment. Police say one earlier run of the same script cost a firm about NT$17 million — and Taiwan’s anti-fraud law is now pulling Google into the fight on two fronts, mailboxes and ads.

Technology has made cybercrime investigation extremely difficult. A successful investigator needs to master multiple skillset to compete with the criminal's anti-forensic & detection methods

A trading dashboard shows a profit, the withdrawal fails, and then comes a demand for a fee, a tax or a margin top-up to release it. No SEBI-registered intermediary ever asks you to send money to free your own funds. How the advance-fee trap works, and how to verify a broker's payment details in 60 seconds.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Prashant Chaudhary confirmed that Sandeep Kumar had earlier worked as a tele-caller for similar fake aviation-job operations and had previously run a fraudulent venture called “Pragati Airways” before partnering with Akhil Kumar.

The session was organized by Belagavi City police in association with Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. on the theme "Electronic Evidence: From First Response to Courtroom Proof" and was attended by over 40 senior police officers.

Investment / Trading scams are one of the most damaging cyber financial fraud globally. The gang used a homemade fake application called “FX Trade” to lure people with promises of high returns on investments.