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On 9 November 2026, France’s C4 (ANSSI, COMCYBER, DGA, DGSE, DGSI) and the Foreign Ministry attributed the 11–12 October sabotage of refrigeration controllers at about 700 French retail sites to IRGC unit Shahid Kaveh, citing fires, food losses and a bundle of technical indicators.

After Cambodia, Has Sri Lanka Become the Scam Networks' New Home?

The group, including five women, was removed via a special flight from Techo International Airport on 7 November in a joint operation with the Chinese Embassy.

Google’s UK Mobile Bi-annual Transparency Report (published 30 September 2026) covers 1 April–30 June 2026: 621,464 Play apps removed and 18,145 developer accounts terminated for policy violations, plus 7,104,152 submissions reviewed and 446,593 rejected. The UK title does not define the geographic coverage of the metrics.

WhatsApp recorded 16,106,700 ban actions against +91 accounts in July–September 2026, including 4,775,100 (29.65%) labelled proactive before user reports. August peaked; September fell 26.8%. Figures come from India monthly compliance reports under Rule 4(1)(d).

Screenshots supplied for analysis show Meta Ads Manager estimating an India audience of 629.2–740.2 million under the displayed controls, the largest in a 19-market collection. The figures are planning ranges, not a census of Facebook users. An age-setting exception and missing capture dates highlight why such comparisons need careful interpretation.

The European Commission and India have concluded negotiations on India's association to Horizon Europe, the EU's €93.5 billion research and innovation programme. Once the agreement is signed and procedures are completed, Indian researchers and organisations could receive direct funding and lead projects under Pillar II, covering areas including digital, health, space and climate. Association is envisaged for January 2027.

Pakistan's NCCIA arrested 273 people, including more than 100 women and 42 minors, at a Karachi call centre operating as Voxtron Solutions that allegedly scammed Americans, seizing 339 laptops, 152 phones and four CPUs. Additional Director Shahzad Akbar said the floor posed as a US debt-validation service, had faced two earlier criminal cases, and that 300 to 350 suspected scam centres still operate in Karachi. A court remanded nine suspects, including the alleged owners.

Canada's Anti-Fraud Centre and the RCMP's National Cybercrime Coordination Centre have launched Maple Disruption 2.0, running November 2–6, 2026. More than 50 partners from police, banks, telecoms, tech, crypto and regulators are working to disable malicious emails, phone numbers, bank and crypto accounts, and fraud websites. That is double the first sprint, which took 3,021 actions in December 2025.

Thailand's Cyber Police Bureau is turning to short-form video for scam prevention. In a Facebook reel posted on 1 November 2026, Police Lieutenant Bunthrika "Som-O" Thong-in of the bureau's Strategy Division warns that tech crime hits every profession and lists five traps, from romance and fake investment schemes to online task jobs, with one rule: think before you transfer.

India and its Quad partners, the US, Australia and Japan, have committed to dismantling the scam centres that steal tens of billions of dollars a year from their citizens and to hold the criminal groups behind them accountable, after the foreign ministers met in Atlanta on 31 October. A day before the US Embassy highlighted the pledge, India's Embassy in Myanmar said 2,533 Indians have been repatriated from scam centres since July 2022.

Germany's Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office has warned of "cybertrading" fraud, in which fake trading platforms show invented profits and fake advisers push victims into ever larger deposits, then charge fees to withdraw money that was never invested. The warning comes days after a 73-year-old Stuttgart man lost about 250,000 euros to the same kind of scam.