Cybercrime
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Fraudsters threaten minority scholarship applicants
Hyderabad: Fraudsters are hacking into the phones of families who have applied for minority scholarships offered by the Telangana government to scam them. After gaining access, they collect all data from the…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Three arrested for duping students of Rs 2 crore
Hyderabad: Three people were arrested for duping 32 Indian students studying at various universities in Canada and the USA to the tune of Rs 2 crore. According to police, the accused –…
- Telangana
Telangana saw over 10,000 cases of cybercrime, in 2021, says report
Hyderabad: Cyber crimes in Telangana have doubled to 10,303 cases in 2021 from 5,025 cases in 2020 with Cyberabad topping the chart with 4,412 felonies, according to a report. Revealing data, the…
- Technology
One in four users unaware of crypto cybercrime risks: Report
New Delhi: Nearly one in four users are unaware of crypto cybercrime risks, while half of the users are hit by crypto cybercrime, a new report has shown. According to the cybersecurity…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Cong files complaint against impersonation of official website
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has lodged a complaint with the cyber crime police station against unidentified miscreants who created a website allegedly impersonating the official website of the Congress…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Two Nigerians held for duping doctor of Rs 12L
Hyderabad: Two Nigerians who allegedly posed themselves as ‘love gurus’ online, were arrested by Rachakonda police on Wednesday for duping a Hyderabad doctor of Rs 12 lakh. According to the police, the…
- Hyderabad
War room case: Congress leader Mallu Ravi gets cyber cops notice
Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader and Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) vice-president Mallu Ravi has received a notice from the city cyber crime police in connection with the party’s war room case. The…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 4 arrested for cyberstalking, harassing engineering college girls
Hyderabad: Four accused were arrested by the Ghatkesar police on Saturday for allegedly cyberstalking and harassing women of an engineering college. A student of Vigana Bharathi Institue of Technology had initially complained…
- Telangana
Telangana HC asks Congress strategist to appear before police
Hyderabad: In a setback to Congress party’s election strategist Sunil Kanugolu, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday directed him to appear before Hyderabad police in connection with the alleged derogatory social media…
- Telangana
Telangana: Anti-extremist operations continued to be successful, says DGP
Hyderabad: The Telangana police have been successful in ensuring that Maoists do not gain a foothold in the State by foiling their repeated attempts to enter it during 2022, a top official said…
- Andhra Pradesh
Six held in Vasai-Virar for duping job-seeker from Andhra Pradesh
Palghar: The Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police in Maharashtra have claimed to have cracked a cybercrime registered in Visakhapatnam of Andhra Pradesh with the arrest of six people, officials said on Wednesday. Jayant…
- Delhi
AIIMS data retrieved, services restored: Government
New Delhi: More than two weeks after the AIIMS cyber attack, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin informed the Lok Sabha on Friday that all the data has been retrieved from…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Man loses Rs 40k over removal of intimate pictures from social media
Hyderabad: In yet another incident of ‘cyber fraud’, a man from Hyderabad lost Rs 40,000 from his possession to cyber criminals recently. It happened after the victim, who is a private employee…
- Hyderabad
‘Economic Offences’ book launched by DGP in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Telangana director general of police (DGP), M Mahender Reddy launched a handbook for investigation named ‘Economic Offences’, authored by Special Protection Force Director General Umesh Sharraf, on Thursday. Mahender Reddy,…
- India
Cyber criminals use Dawood Ibrahim’s name to threaten, dupe Patna woman
Patna: Cyber criminals duped a Patna woman of Rs 20 lakh and also used her bank accounts for the RTGS and NEFT transactions to the tune of Rs 3 crore after using…
