Cyber crime

October 23, 2024 5:14 PM

MHA issues advisory to create ‘Special Wing of Cyber Commandos’ in all states to counter cyber threats

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an advisory on Tuesday, urging all states to establish a Special Wing of Cyber Commandos. The initiative comes in response to over 100 hoax bomb threats targeting Indian airlines in the past week, causing significant disruption to passengers and financial losses for the airlines. The majority of these threats were traced back to accounts on social media platform X, created using virtual private networks (VPNs) or dark web browsers, eluding detection by ...

September 16, 2024 4:27 PM

India repatriates over 1,600 nationals from Southeast Asia amid cyber trafficking concerns

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar addressed the Lok Sabha on Friday, highlighting the government's serious approach to combating cyber crime trafficking of Indian nationals to Southeast Asian countries. In a significant update during Question Hour, Jaishankar revealed that 650 Indians have been repatriated from Cambodia, 415 from Myanmar, and 548 from Laos. In response to a query on cyber trafficking raised by Congress MP from Attingal, Adoor Prakash, Jaishankar said that the Indian gove...

June 28, 2024 12:18 PM

Indonesia to deport 103 Taiwanese suspected of cyber crimes in Bali

Indonesian immigration authorities arrested 103 Taiwan passport holders, an official said on Friday, suspecting them of running a cyber crime operation out of the island of Bali. The raid on June 26 was the biggest arrest this year, the Immigration agency said. Bali immigration director Saffar Muhammad Godam told reporters authorities would soon deport the Taiwan passport holders after arresting them in a sting operation at a villa in Bali's Tabanan district. "The 103 foreign nationals stayed...