Topic: Cybercrime
What is MuleHunter.AI?
The Reserve Bank of India’s innovation unit, RBIH, has introduced MuleHunter.AI, which aims to combat financial fraud effectively and specifically targets mule accounts used in illegal activities. Recent...
TRAI’s New Traceability Guidelines on OTPs
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will enforce new traceability guidelines on December 1, 2024, to combat spam and fraudulent messages. Concerns arose about delays in receiving...
What is Volt Typhoon?
Volt Typhoon is a hacking group that has been active since at least 2017. The group is believed to be state-sponsored by China and is known for its...
Pakistan’s New Cybercrime Law
Pakistani authorities announced a new law that will help them in combating false news on social media, a move that free-media groups and the opposition have criticized as...
GitHub App Case
On January 3, 2021, police apprehended an engineering student from Bengaluru to question in connection with its probe into two apps on which images of Muslim women were...
Air India Cyber-Attack
Air India has recently announced that, ten years’ worth of Air India customer data such as credit cards, passports and phone numbers were leaked in a cyber-attack on...
What Home Ministry informed Parliament on Cybercrime?
The Home Minister have recently presented the crime data in Parliament in the ongoing Budget Session. Crime Data The ministry of Home Affairs informed in the Parliament that...
What is Event Bolt Malware in news recently?
The Computer Emergency Response of Team (CERT) of India has issued warning against a new malware called “EventBot”. The malware according to CERT steals personal financial information from...
Safety of Zoom Application red flagged by Home Ministry
On April 16, 2020, the Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord) operating under Ministry of Home Affairs red flagged Zoom application. The Home Ministry has issued guidelines to use the...
NCRB celebrates its 35th Inception Day
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) celebrated its 35th Inception Day on March 12, 2020. The Chief Guest of the occasion, Union Minister of State for Home Shri Nityanand Rai launched...
World Economic Forum: 1 trillion trees and report on Password role in Cyber Crime
The World Economic Forum began on January 21, 2020 in Davos. The highlight of the forum this year is over its initiative to plant 1 trillion trees in...
