Unknown criminals have duped a Telco resident of Rs 74,000 fraudulently by asking the victim to download a Quick Support App.  The victim, Arun Samuel Datt lodged an FIR with the Bistupur-based ...

Historian and cultural theorist Sumanta Banerjee has written about crime in colonial Calcutta. In one of his essays, he makes the point that as a rapacious East India Company moved ahead with its urba...

Ukraine was hit by a massive cyberattack warning its citizens to “be afraid and expect the worst”, and Russia, which has massed more than 100,000 troops on its neighbour's frontier, re...

A 35-year-old man from Alwar in Rajasthan was arrested on Saturday for allegedly duping a Salt Lake resident of Rs 45,000 by promising to get wooden furniture delivered to his house. Cops identified ...

Three men from Africa and two women from Manipur have been arrested for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 27,500 after getting in touch with her on a mobile messaging app. A team from the cyber-crime po...

With a rise in cybercrime in the national capital, the Delhi Police will set up a dedicated cyber police station in every district to deal with such cases effectively. The Delhi government's Depa...

A cyberattack disrupted the sale of heavily subsidised petrol in Iran on Tuesday, state media reported, causing long lines at fuel stations across the country weeks before the anniversary of the 2019 ...

Russia was not invited to attend a 30-country virtual meeting led by the United States that is aimed at combating the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, a senior administration offici...

A total of 1,28,531 crimes against children were recorded in India last year, implying that an average of 350 such cases were reported each day during the pandemic, according to an NGO's analysis ...

Websites run by the ransomware gang REvil suddenly became unreachable on Tuesday, sparking widespread speculation that the group had been knocked offline. The Russia-linked cybercrime ring has collec...