Bengaluru: Police commissioner B Dayananda has issued an advisory, cautioning people about cyber fraudsters leveraging the Indo-Pak conflict to steal personal data, potentially leading to financial theft and privacy breaches.In a video advisory, Dayananda noted that using the tensions between India and Pakistan, cyber criminals are employing phishing tactics, disseminating fake news, and sharing malicious...Read More
Lucknow: In a proactive push to boost women’s digital and physical safety, Lucknow Police Commissionerate conducted a three-day intensive training workshop for Pink Booth Officers(PBOs), empowering them to tackle rising cyber threats against women more effectively. The workshop, held from Friday to Sunday at Police Lines Seminar Hall, aimed to modernise functioning of Pink Booths—dedicated...Read More
The Lido Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), the entity that governs the Lido liquid staking protocol, has initiated an emergency vote to rotate a compromised oracle — a bridge that connects real-world data to blockchain systems. According to members of the Lido DAO, an address belonging to the Chorus One oracle was compromised, and the Ether...Read More
By: Sayeem Abass In the past two years, Kashmir has witnessed an alarming rise in cyber scams, a trend that has left many residents grappling with financial losses and a sense of insecurity. With increasing internet penetration and a surge in digital transactions, cybercriminals have found fertile ground to exploit the region’s burgeoning online user...Read More
Has the notorious LockBit ransomware gang finally met its end? In a shocking turn of events, LockBit, one of the most notorious ransomware groups, has had its own site defaced and a massive amount of data dumped. LockBit’s own leak site was defaced with a bold message: “Do not crime. Crime is bad.” Alongside that,...Read More
Prayagraj: If you become a victim of online financial fraud, promptly file a complaint with authorities to increase the likelihood of recovering your funds, according to cybercrime police officials.The Pratapgarh cybercrime police have successfully refunded Rs 4.74 lakh to eight victims who fell prey to UPI fraud, phishing calls, and fake messages within 24 hours...Read More
Nagpur: As topics like cyber security and cyber attack take centre stage, Maharashtra govt will send a delegation to an international cyber security event which begins from Sunday (May 11).Minister of information technology, Ashish Shelar, will lead a govt delegation to the IoT Solution World Congress and Barcelona Cyber Security Congress 2025. Principal secretary (IT)...Read More
The United Nations Convention on Cybercrime, even before negotiations began, raised significant alarm within the global human rights community. These concerns escalated further when, on August 8th, UN Member States unanimously adopted the convention, following unsuccessful last-minute efforts to remove central human rights protections. The Convention defines a series of specific crimes, including attacks on...Read More
Amid the ongoing Indo-Pakistan tensions, cyber criminals in NCR are having a field day trying to fool people by asking them to make donations for Army and Kashmir and also stealing data from the victims’ mobile phones. The cops of Haryana, Rajasthan and UP have issued alerts against phishing links, social media messages seeking donations...Read More
Ethereum’s latest network upgrade, Pectra, introduced powerful new features aimed at improving scalability and smart account functionality — but it also opened a dangerous new attack vector that could allow hackers to drain funds from user wallets using only an offchain signature. Under the Pectra upgrade, which went live on May 7 at epoch 364032,...Read More
