Human ingenuity and criminality have moved hand in hand through its infamous history. If we thought that thuggery has shifted to the cyber world, we were badly mistaken. The fascinating part of this case is the quality of investigation and that it comes out of Sambhal, which of late has been famous for the Hindu […]
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The season of the digital scams doesn’t seem to end, more so with the digital age of apps and social media, ruling everyone’s mind. Outright foolish as it may sound, people remain gullible to well established systems of fraud, in the digital world. Today only we have a news of a elderly couple committing suicide
Is gold smuggling rampant in this country? What are the known and well established routes? What are the modus operandi which are used on a regular basis? What is the nature of intelligence available against which the individual offenders, cartels and syndicates are mapped? What quantum of gold smuggling trade is done purely by solo
Daily Post 3005 BANGALORE SHOWS THE WAY – OTP SCAMS OUT OF FAVOUR Bangalore shows the way not only in the IT trajectory of the nation, but also in the cyber crime trends. The nature of cyber crimes in different geographies speak profusely, of a type of digital divide in this nefarious underbelly of the
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Daily Post 2995 ONE CYBER SCAM WITH 5000 MULE INDIAN BANK ACCOUNTS In the world of hacks, breaches, and cyber fraud, with every big case, the feeling is that it cannot get bigger. But lo and behold in a very short time, the preceding case starts looking puny. Think of a case of where more
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DailyPost 2976 CYBER FRAUD CHALLENGE -’ ROOTED DEVICES’ If you still feel that cyber is not the main arena of crime and police moving aimlessly in the physical world can stem the rot, then we are the farthest from reality. Accepting that Cyber Police would be the main police in the days to come, would
DailyPost 2968 CRUCIAL DEFENCE UNIT UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK We keep speculating about the state of cyber security in India given the fact that barely anything authenticated or validated comes out in the public domain either vetted by the government or the organisation(s) in question. There is still no legally mandated standardised breach reporting system in
DailyPost 2955 DIGITAL ARREST – CAN WE STEM THE DIGITAL ROT Taking the name of a government agency surreptitiously and making some ill-gotten money or playing the government middlemen and disappearing is quite a known form of crime. The coming of the digital age ushered in a new set of crimes generically called cyber crime.
DailyPost 2936 DIGITAL ARRESTS – ‘THE ADVISORY RESPONSE’ Take a hypothetical crime scenario of gunpoint robberies happening all across the country, with the same modus operandi, similar gangs, and being publicised as well. In which manner the police and government would have reacted? Did it not call for immediate and effective action? Take the next
DailyPost 2935 OPERATION CRONOS Ransomware is the biggest curse of the cyber world today and it impacts the real world in many ways you would have ever imagined. From finance to espionage to critical infrastructure to intellectual capital to business secrets, it can impact any enterprise in a debilitating manner. Data in all its manifestations
DailyPost 2934 US TELECOM FIRMS INFILTRATED The hacking of telecom firms is not going to end anytime soon. What they have on offer for the hackers is well known by now, it being a critical tech infra. Newer methods and exploits are coming out in the open. As the US telecommunications industry forms the backbone
