Cybercrime Trends

IDScan disclosed a breach after a dark-web service claimed 153M+ US and Canadian licenses. How to protect yourself: freezes, your DMV, an IRS IP PIN and more.

Scammers are impersonating the FBI's IC3 with Telegram messages and AI deepfake videos to re-target fraud victims. How it works and how to report safely.

The accused obtained FSSAI certificates for kitchens that never cooked a meal, self-placed orders from stolen cards, marked them delivered and pocketed Swiggy's settlements — a case that puts merchant-onboarding fraud squarely on the foodtech agenda

Investigators seized 100 mobile handsets, 669 SIM cards, 120 batteries, chargers, a CPU, Wi-Fi router, and other devices while tracing ₹22.30 lakh in suspected fraud proceeds across multiple bank accounts.

Guests are getting messages with real booking details and a link to confirm their reservation. We took one link apart: how the kit hides, who it targets, what to do.

One threat mail to the Gujarat Secretariat led police to two men in Bihar and Jharkhand; 5,13,847 e-mail accounts with passwords recovered. The funding and the instructions, investigators allege, came from Bangladesh.

Fake iPhone 18 Pro pre-order sites promise cheaper, faster phones and deliver nothing. How they work, the red flags, and how to check a site before you pay.

Fake iPhone 18 Pro pre-order sites promise cheaper, faster phones and deliver nothing. How they work, the red flags, and how to check a site before you pay.

A Lumen Database filing shows Google was asked to kill Gmail accounts used to impersonate Fubon Group chairman Cai Mingzhong and a Taichung mutual-aid chief. The pitch is almost polite: create a chat group, send the QR code, then “advance” a company payment. Police say one earlier run of the same script cost a firm about NT$17 million — and Taiwan’s anti-fraud law is now pulling Google into the fight on two fronts, mailboxes and ads.

Technology has made cybercrime investigation extremely difficult. A successful investigator needs to master multiple skillset to compete with the criminal's anti-forensic & detection methods

A trading dashboard shows a profit, the withdrawal fails, and then comes a demand for a fee, a tax or a margin top-up to release it. No SEBI-registered intermediary ever asks you to send money to free your own funds. How the advance-fee trap works, and how to verify a broker's payment details in 60 seconds.

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.