Customers must actively engage with banks and law enforcement, leveraging detailed documentation to prove the legitimacy of their transactions and seek the release of their funds, emphasizing proportionality in investigative actions
AI researchers think that AI companies need more oversight on decisions about their AI models when deciding what part of artificial intelligence capabilities they want to restrict
Malicious loan apps, preying on individuals needing quick cash, pose significant privacy risks by accessing sensitive phone data, including contacts, galleries, and financial details, beyond legitimate loan requirement
The Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), has been actively combating these threats by targeting not only individual malicious files but also the underlying online infrastructure
Future policing is increasingly challenged by criminal networks leveraging advanced technologies like generative AI for hyper-realistic deepfakes and autonomous drones for coordinated physical and digital attacks
Hyderabad cyber crime police initiated criminal cases against Meta India, its country head Arun Srinivas, and multiple social media handles due to alleged circulation of abusive posts targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi
This comes after alarm bells rung across India and the rest of the world when Mythos, the latest Claude AI tool from Anthropic, was found to be capable of exploiting vulnerabilities in financial ecosystems by itself
Cyber crime has fundamentally changed, because today’s cyber criminals no longer need sophisticated hacking tools to target ordinary citizens—they need trust, reach and scale
As digital transactions grow, India is confronting a silent but fast moving wave of cyber threats ranging from digital arrest scams and fraudulent websites to mule account fraud and other ingenious methods designed to bypass detection