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French police warn that fake letters in the name of France's tax authority, the DGFiP, are using the EU's DAC8 crypto-reporting directive to demand registration on a "Digital Assets Portal" that does not exist. A QR code leads to a cloned site that takes tax logins and then wallet recovery phrases. Tax authorities in the Netherlands and Germany have reported similar DAC8-themed phishing emails.

Police in Durg, Chhattisgarh, have arrested Parmanand Yadav, 24, for running a fake matrimonial call centre that used AI-generated pictures of women on Facebook and Instagram to collect Rs 2,000 and more from prospective grooms in several states. Victims paid through QR codes and were then blacklisted. Police seized Rs 2,83,600 in cash and equipment.

State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, is recruiting a General Manager and Chief AI Officer at up to Rs 1.60 crore a year, plus three DGMs at up to Rs 1.20 crore and two AI architects at up to Rs 90 lakh, on fixed-term contracts of three years, extendable to five. Applications under Advt. CRPD/SCO/2026-27/30 close on 9 November 2026.

An Instagram Reels ad promising "Part Time Typing Jobs In Netherlands, 9 Am to 5 PM!" sends users to earningtricks.in, where they get a two-question quiz, full-screen "Reward granted" adverts and filler articles with sponsored-search buttons. No employer, job or application ever appears. The site's code shows Google rewarded ad slots, Google related-search (RSOC) buttons and a Meta Pixel that counts ad views and clicks.

Delhi Police arrested 944 people and registered 596 new FIRs in Operation CyHawk 6.0 on 28 and 29 October 2026, working out 4,002 NCRP complaints involving about Rs 479 crore. 283 teams went to 17 States and 5 Union Territories, targeting mule-account suppliers, insider bankers, SIM agents, SIM boxes and illegal call centres.

The Enforcement Directorate searched premises in Bengaluru and Madhya Pradesh on 27 October 2026 under FEMA over unauthorised cross-border transfers using stablecoins worth more than Rs 5,000 crore. The probe covers RPFAS Technologies, which runs Mudrex and Saber.money (about Rs 4,600 crore), and DeFi platform Instadapp/Fluid (about USD 40 million), with shell entities in tax havens.

The Singapore Police Force has warned that Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallets bought from some retail stores in Singapore contained malicious hardware components that could capture recovery phrases or private keys. At least two cases have been reported since 10 September 2026, with losses of about S$3.5 million. Ledger is reviewing the cases and investigations are ongoing.

India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) held a full-day cybersecurity exercise and drill for the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector on 27 October 2026. More than 300 officials from over 55 institutions took part, mostly Regional Rural Banks and Cooperative Banks. The drill focused on detecting and countering AI-enabled attacks, including automated discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities.

India's I4C sent Google three takedown notices on 22, 23 and 26 October 2026, published on the Lumen Database as notices 100795192, 101418971 and 101418978. They list 158 entries covering 149 unique Firebase Realtime Database hosts of the kind used by Android malware to steal OTPs and SMS. Names include PM-KISAN, RTO, HDFC, ICICI and IPPB lures and admin "panels". Full IOC list included. The notices do not show takedown status.

A Facebook Page called "Blood Sugar & Blood Pressure" is running about 51 EU ads promising phone-based blood-sugar checks, with its lead ad reaching an estimated 28,658 accounts across France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands. The ads lead to five apps from five developer names in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Pakistan whose own listings say they measure nothing. We trace the scheme step by step, with a checklist for spotting it.

About 2,500 Maharashtra government officials can now use Sarvam AI's Indus workspace, launched as MahaINDUS by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, to draft documents, summarise files, search Government Resolutions and evaluate tenders in 22 languages. The state also signed an Enterprise Agreement with Sarvam's parent Axonwise. Officials say data stays in India and is not used to train AI models.

Pakistan's NCCIA has booked 130 Malaysian nationals over an alleged call centre at KASA Tower, Bahria Town, Rawalpindi, that posed as bank staff and Malaysian police to defraud people in Malaysia, with money allegedly routed through Touch 'n Go eWallet and crypto. FIR 182/26 says a Malaysian known as "Jack" allegedly directed it from Cambodia. A visa annex reviewed by MoCA shows 26 of 124 visible entries still marked valid.