Mumbai: CA duped of Rs 23 lakh by cyber fraudsters posing as SEBI-authorised market advisors
The chartered accountant clicked on the link to get more information and was added to a WhatsApp group named “555 IIFL Securities Add Learning Add Exchange”.
Fake money laundering case: 77-year-old kept under digital arrest for a month, loses Rs 3.8 crore
A 77-year-old Mumbai woman was scammed out of Rs 3.8 crore by cyber fraudsters posing as law enforcement. They kept her under "digital custody" for over a month via WhatsApp and Skype, threatening arrest in a fake money laundering case. The complainant, a homemaker, lives with her retired husband (75) in the city while her two children are abroad.
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PhonePe users beware-This is how cyber criminals are duping people of lakhs of rupees
Cyber criminals are inventing new ways of cheating every day. Currently, fraudsters have started cheating people through a malicious app named PM Kisan Yojana. After downloading this app, all the sensitive information of the user reaches the fraudsters.
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Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin
Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday.
First sketches of ‘masterminds’ of nationwide ‘digital arrest scam’ released
Gujarat police on Wednesday released the first sketches of the suspected masterminds of the ongoing digital arrest scam across the country, based on the description of the complainants from Surat city.
New Phishing Tool GoIssue Targets GitHub Developers in Bulk Email Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated tool called GoIssue that can be used to send phishing messages at scale targeting GitHub users.
