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Singapore's Elderly Bear Heaviest Losses as Scams Evolve: Police
Elderly victims aged 65 and above made up 14.4% of all scam victims in the first six months of the year, down from 15.0% a year ago. Yet the average amount lost per elderly victim rose to S$42,347 from S$35,374 in the same period last year — the highest among all age groups.
Meta Platforms Accounted for More Than a Third of Singapore Scam Cases in First Half of 2026, Police Report Shows
While police disruption efforts intensified, with over 37,500 WhatsApp lines and 31,600 online monikers taken down, scammers continue to exploit Meta's social reach and messaging scale to run e-commerce, job and investment scams — using Facebook ads to lure victims before shifting them to WhatsApp groups for the final con.

Delhi Police Bust Fake ‘Bretish Airways’ Job Racket; Six Arrested in Organised Aviation Scam
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Prashant Chaudhary confirmed that Sandeep Kumar had earlier worked as a tele-caller for similar fake aviation-job operations and had previously run a fraudulent venture called “Pragati Airways” before partnering with Akhil Kumar.

Is OnePay Genuine? What Users Should Check Before Installing | Chinese 刷单 (brushing / order-completion) pattern
OnePay resembles like Chinese 刷单 (brushing / order-completion) pattern used by illegal payment gateways

Indian banks including ICICI, SBI, Axis impersonated by Android malware using Firebase, government blocking notices show
India orders Google to disable 160+ Firebase projects used as banking malware backend as per notices uploaded on Lumen DB. The move will safeguard thousands of banking customers who have been infected by android based malwares

Threat Intelligence: DMCA-Themed Credential Phishing Targeting X (Twitter) Users
Campaign Focus: contentviolations-x.com and Related -x.com Infrastructure

Belagavi City Police hold workshop on investigation and collection of electronic evidence
The session was organized by Belagavi City police in association with Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. on the theme "Electronic Evidence: From First Response to Courtroom Proof" and was attended by over 40 senior police officers.

Phone Farms - How automation amplifies and fuels global cybercrimes
A single physical device contains 20 phones + free group-control (fleet-management) software; manufacturer owns the entire phone system source code. A virtual SIM card's information is built in: ICCID, IMSI, MCC, MNC, and PhoneNumber can all be written, and the SIM information is globally readable by both the system and apps.

IIT Kanpur’s C3iHub Rolls Out Intensive Cybersecurity Training for Uttar Pradesh Power Sector Officials
C3iHub’s specialised training equips participants with hands-on skills in OT threat detection, industrial protocol security (such as Modbus and IEC 61850), IT-OT convergence risks, and realistic attack simulations on control systems, enabling power sector professionals to better protect critical infrastructure from targeted cyber threats.

Indian Police Bust Fake Forex Trading Call Center, Arrest Three in Madhya Pradesh Cyber Fraud Raid
Investment / Trading scams are one of the most damaging cyber financial fraud globally. The gang used a homemade fake application called “FX Trade” to lure people with promises of high returns on investments.

Chinese linked "Digital Arrest" Syndicate busted, India nabs key Operator Linked to 1,090 Cases Worth Over ₹1071 Crore
Cyber Centre of Excellence, Gandhinagar, cracks pan-India racket that defrauded citizens through fake "digital arrests" and laundered proceeds into cryptocurrency routed to Chinese handlers.

126 Fake Holy Sites, 21,985 Victims: Gujarat Police Bust India’s Biggest Pilgrimage Booking Scam
Somnath • Dwarka • Tirupati • Shirdi • Rishikesh • Haridwar • Katra • Ujjain • Puri & more — Gujarat Police Crush Nationwide Pilgrimage Booking Scam

How Indian States Are Ranked on Cybercrime Performance: The 9 Key Parameters Explained
Telangana led the rankings with near-complete green performance across most metrics, followed closely by Maharashtra, while several others such as Puducherry, Ladakh, and Uttarakhand also featured among the top performers, highlighting varied progress in building a coordinated national response to cyber threats.

Pakistan arrests 258 Vietnamese & Chinese scammers in Islamabad | read for names and passports
Sparco Plaza (Gulberg Greens) was the location where all foreigners were operating from. All 258 had entered on visit, tourist and business visas, according to the report. Is Pakistan Becoming the New Hub for Global Cyber-Scam Call Centers?

Timor-Leste Raids Expose Growing Transnational Cyber-Fraud Network: Hundreds of Foreigners Detained as Scam Centers Relocate
Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão said on Thursday that the Government will apply a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal online activities to protect national security and Timor-Leste's reputation. The government is now fast-tracking a cybersecurity package, including a new criminal code for digital crimes, blocking powers, and digital evidence rules. Between raids, police are working with community leaders for intelligence — the same method that led to the Comoro and Bazartete raids.
French Gendarmerie Issues Alert Over Fake Police Summons Using DGPN Logos
Citizens warned not to reply or pay as phishing scam circulates under official seal | Report phishing on signal-spam.fr and to PHISHING (phishing@dgssi.gouv.fr)
Mexico City Government Issues Urgent Alert As Fraudsters Hijack WhatsApp and Bank Accounts Using Your Own Verification Code
"¡NO LO COMPARTAS!" - The New Government Impersonation Scam Targeting Every Phone in CDMX - WhatsApp Account takeover scam

AI Agent Security: A Practical Field Guide for Engineers
How Black Hat USA 2026 reframed agents as systems that browse, run code, and move credentials—and what to do about it. Bottom line: agents are not safer chatbots; they are automation with a probabilistic parser on the front. Design them like production automation that accepts hostile input—because they do.
India's banking regulator (RBI) does not want the CISO Reporting to IT
The 2026 Directions put the CISO's reporting line in writing — outside IT, into risk, with no business targets. The RBI regulates over 9000 financial entities, ranking one of largest in the world.

AI enabled Reverse Engineering vs. Obfuscated SDK: How AI Agents Are Now Cracking Hunter’s Defenses
In the escalating cat-and-mouse game of Android security, one native library has stood out for its brutal effectiveness: libhunter.so from the popular root/hook/tampering detector com.zhenxi.hunter (Hunter). By mid-2026, its combination of heavy obfuscation, dynamic JNI trickery, and multi-layered runtime self-checks had made traditional static analysis painfully slow and error-prone. Manual reverse engineering felt like navigating a minefield blindfolded.
Cooperative Bank Hacking Case, Gujarat Police makes several arrests
Police have delivered a coordinated blow to an international cybercrime syndicate known as “Solar Spider”, which specialises in hacking cooperative banks with weak cybersecurity and laundering proceeds through mule accounts.