Representative Image. New Delhi: In a major crackdown on digital arrest scams, the CBI has booked 39 point-of-sales (PoS) operators who sold 1,100 “ghost SIM cards” to cyber criminals operating from Southeast Asian countries to trap gullible individuals here, officials said Saturday. The PoS operators came under the scrutiny of the country’s anti-cybercrime unit under...Read More
Alexander Vinnik, the Russian operator of the now-defunct BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, has reportedly been released from U.S. custody in a prisoner swap for American school teacher Marc Fogel, according to media reports citing anonymous U.S. officials. Vinnik’s French lawyer, Frederic Belot, confirmed his client’s release to the Russian state news agency TASS on Wednesday. Vinnik’s...Read More
If your phone number was one of the 89 million exposed in the recent data breach that affected Steam, the company says your info is safe. In a statement shared with CNET, Steam has denied that a reported data breach endangered its users’ personal information. “Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of...Read More
Important global cybercrime news has been curated by FutureCrime Researchers to keep you informed about various types of digital fraud occurring worldwide and to provide insights into the best mitigation strategies. Read below to learn more in detail. 1. CBI flags 64,000 phone numbers linked to cybercrime in Southeast Asia The CBI has identified 64,000...Read More
Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent BBC Joe Tidy interacted with hackers who claimed to have done the M&S and Co-op hack Almost daily, my phone pings with messages from hackers of all stripes. The good, the bad, the not-so-sure. I’ve been reporting on cyber security for more than a decade, so I know that many of...Read More
Listen to article KARACHI: Tech experts, strategists and chief executives of IT companies have vowed to promote Pakistan as one of the leading cybersecurity solution providers after it played an instrumental role in getting an edge over India during the recent conventional war. IT companies see cybersecurity solutions as an opportunity to grow as it is an...Read More
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has identified over 64,000 mobile phone numbers that were bought using forged documents and may have been used for cybercrimes in Southeast Asian countries, officials said on Saturday, days after the agency carried out searches at 42 locations in eight states as part of a crackdown on “digital arrest”...Read More
OPSWAT has officially opened the doors to its new Arlington, Virginia, office and CIP cybersecurity lab. The grand opening featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Virginia State Senator Barbara Favola (District 40), with further remarks by Arlington County Board Chair Takis Karontonis and Kate Bates, President and CEO of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. In...Read More
MULTAN: The intelligence agencies and the National Cybercrime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), Multan, have arrested 14 operatives of a 21-member gang involved in online fraud with people living abroad. According to officials, the gang was involved in defrauding people overseas and extorting money from them. They said a global cybercrime network operating from Pakistan had been...Read More
Ahmedabad: Over the past fortnight, cybercrime units across Gujarat’s major cities have quietly dismantled several sophisticated cybercrime fraud networks. Teams from Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, and Vadodara, working alongside the state cyber crime cell, successfully solved 12 cybercrime cases, including the capture of associates linked to alleged transnational cybercrime syndicate. A release stated that the minister...Read More
