New Delhi, June 11, 2025In a significant breakthrough, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday busted a transnational cybercrime racket and seized cryptocurrencies worth Rs 2.8 crore. The premiere investigation agency also arrested an accused, identified as Rahul Arora, after conducting searches at three locations. The crackdown on cyber syndicate and the subsequent recovery...Read More
In a major breakthrough in a cross-border cyber fraud case, Bengaluru police have arrested two men from Hyderabad in connection with a ₹4.75 crore scam that saw an elderly couple manipulated into believing they were under “digital arrest,” Indian Express reported. The fraud came to light when cybercrime officials in Chennai stumbled upon Bengaluru-based victims....Read More
Microsoft has released patches to fix 67 security flaws, including one zero-day bug in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WEBDAV) that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 67 vulnerabilities, 11 are rated Critical and 56 are rated Important in severity. This includes 26 remote code execution flaws, 17 information...Read More
SINGAPORE: Authorities in Singapore have taken down more than 1,000 internet protocol (IP) addresses based in the country and believed to have been linked to cybercrimes. Officers from the Cybercrime Command under the Criminal Investigation Department of the Singapore Police Force (SPF) worked with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) to take down the...Read More
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) — Investigators from the Terre Haute Police Department joined Indiana State Police’s “Internet Crimes Against Children” Task Force in Indianapolis for a press conference on Tuesday, May 6. The event reviewed “Safe Online Summer,” an initiative aimed at catching child predators through April. Detective Josh Loudermilk from the Terre Haute Police...Read More
SINGAPORE – More than 20,000 malicious IP addresses or domains linked to information stealers have been taken down in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation against cybercriminal infrastructure. During Operation Secure (January – April 2025) law enforcement agencies from 26 countries worked to locate servers, map physical networks and execute targeted takedowns. Ahead of the operation, INTERPOL cooperated...Read More
As part of its ongoing crackdown on cybercrime under the ‘Chakra-V’ operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out raids at three different locations. The CBI seized crime proceeds in the form of Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs) valued at ₹2.8 crore, along with unaccounted cash worth ₹22 lakh from the suspect’s possession. One individual...Read More
In cybersecurity, there’s an urge to collect as much data as possible. Logs, alerts, metrics, everything. But more data doesn’t necessarily translate to better security. SOCs deal with tens of thousands of alerts every day. It’s more than any person can realistically keep up with. When too much data comes in at once, things get...Read More
Yes24 down for third day, triggering ripple effects across entertainment industry Yes24 logo (Yes24) Yes24, the country’s largest online book retailer and a major ticketing platform, remained inaccessible for a third consecutive day Wednesday, following what the company confirmed was a ransomware attack. The outage, which began in the early hours of Monday, brought all...Read More
The Bengaluru police Tuesday arrested two alleged money mules in a case involving fraud amounting to Rs 4.75 crore, following a tip-off from the cybercrime unit in Chennai that unravelled a sophisticated international cybercriminal network spanning India, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia. The accused have been identified as Eshwar Singh and Ramnarayan Chowdhary, both based in...Read More
