Cybercrime Trends

The FBI's IC3 logged a record $20.9 billion in losses and over a million complaints in 2025. We decode where the money goes, who loses it, and how US reporting and recovery actually work.

Fake 'unpaid toll' texts from the China-based Smishing Triad are flooding US and UK phones, with text-scam losses at 470 million dollars. How to spot them.

Cuffe Parade Police Station cracks case involving fake gas agency APK scam and misuse of credit cards to obscure money trail

Ransomware in 2026 is a franchised, automated industry: access brokers hand off breached networks in seconds, affiliates rent attack kits for the price of a streaming subscription, and victims face double and triple extortion. A complete guide to how modern attacks work, who runs them, the landmark 2025-26 incidents, and the global fight over whether paying should be illegal.

Scammers posing as police and CBI officers are digitally arresting Indians over video calls and draining their savings. How it works, and how to beat it.

Fake ChatGPT, Sora and DeepSeek apps, websites and browser add-ons are spreading data-stealing malware. How to tell a real AI tool from a malicious copy.

TA4922, a financially motivated Chinese-speaking hacking group, has expanded from East Asia to the UK, Germany and beyond using Atlas RAT. Inside the campaign.

A mule account moves criminal money through an innocent person's bank account. In India, renting or lending yours is a crime — even unknowingly. How the scam works and how to avoid it.

Police say suspect tricked nursing-exam aspirants in several states by promising leaked question papers on Telegram and charging about ₹2,000 each. Owing to such wide scale abuse of Telegram, India ranks first in data disclosure request from Telegram, with 2734 request sent in Q1 itself.

In 2026, deepfake fraud accounts for 11% of global fraudulent activity. Human visual detection has failed, forcing a transition to continuous authentication.

Pig-butchering scams mix fake romance with crypto investing to drain victims over months, costing Americans 8.7 billion dollars in 2025. The red flags to know.

AI can clone a loved one's voice from a few seconds of audio to fake an emergency and demand money. How the scam works, and the safe word that stops it.