Haryana engineer held on digital arrest for 6 days, duped of Rs 3.46 lakh

A mechanical engineer was put under digital arrest for six days by cyber fraudsters and duped of Rs 3.46 lakh, the police said in Faridabad on Friday. Image used for representational purposes......

75-year-old retiree loses whopping Rs 11cr in cyber fraud

A 75-year-old retired ship captain Mumbai has lost a staggering Rs 11.16 crore over four months in a cyber fraud scheme falsely promising lucrative returns on stock market investments, police said.......

Senior cop gets 'digital arrest' call during presser

Some online fraudsters got their target and timing horribly wrong on Sunday after they attempted to 'digitally arrest' a senior police official with an automated call over 'credit card misuse'......

How To Combat Digital Crime Epidemic

The fundamental responsibility for preventing such crimes and for bringing the criminals to justice rests with the State, and it cannot abdicate that function. Illustration: Dominic......

AI tool MuleHunter to tackle financial fraud

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday said the central bank has developed an innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) based model MuleHunter.ai......

'RBI Not Overly Concerned About GDP'

'The central bank has highlighted that the slowdown in growth has been limited to a few sectors and overall growth is expected to pick up in the second half of the year.' IMAGE: Reserve Bank of......

How Banks Plan To Tackle 'Mule' Fraud

'A mule operates someone else's account to transfer illegal money.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Commercial banks in India have stepped up their control mechanism in taking on......

How Trai Plans To Scuttle Scams

Numbers could be classified further into (140) marketing and (160 or 161) for service calls to easily identify the purpose of the call in the future. Kindly note the image has only been posted for......

Is Fahadh Faasil India's Finest Actor?

As Fahadh Faasil turns 39 on August 8, Subhash K Jha looks back at his favourite films featuring the brilliant actor.   Maheshinte Prathikaaram, 2016 Five years before Fahadh Faasil and......

ICC hit by phishing scam; loses around $2.5 million

IMAGE: International Cricket Council chairman Greg Barclay. Photograph: ICC The International Cricket Council was the target of cybercrime involving a wire transfer of a sizeable sum of money,......