Us Cyber Crime

The Cyber Crime Division of Punjab Police has busted two fake call centres running in Mohali, near here, and arrested 155 employees for making fraudulent calls to people living in the US and duping them, police said on Friday.

A fake international call centre was busted and 115 members of an interstate gang who allegedly cheated US citizens by impersonating executives of an e-commerce giant were arrested, the Hyberabad Police on Friday said.

Three people, including the main accused, were arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly defrauding several US citizens of more than 20 million dollars by posing as a senior Drug Enforcement Agency official.

A Russian national appeared in a US federal court on Thursday after he was extradited from South Korea to Ohio to face charges for his alleged role in a cybercriminal organization, the US Department of Justice said.

The cyber crime cell of Goa Police today claimed to have busted a fake call centre, arresting 13 persons for allegedly posing as officials representing the US Social Security Administration and extorting money from US citizens, police said.

US President Joe Biden last week expressed concern about the recent increase in cyberattacks.

The US government has announced reward payments of up to $10 million (roughly Rs. 74.6 crores) for tips that led to the arrest of cyber criminals. In a first for a US state agency, the reward payment options include cryptocurrency payouts.

Russia will work together with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the RIA news agency quoted FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov as saying on Wednesday.

The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.

BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.

According to F-Secure's honeypot data, Russia, the US, China, the Netherlands and Germany targeted India with 436,090 attacks.

An Indian-origin man is among three persons sentenced for their roles in staging a cyberattack that brought down huge swathes of the internet and infected over 100,000 US-based computing devices

Russia had nothing to do with a massive global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, criticising the US intelligence community for creating the original software.

According to prosecutors, Findikoglu masterminded three complex, global financial crimes by hacking into different credit card processors.

A 42-year-old American has been arrested in Hyderabad on suspicion of circulating child pornography on the internet, police said on Thursday, adding that they were investigating whether any of the victims had been trafficked.

The Cyber Crime Division of Punjab Police has busted two fake call centres running in Mohali, near here, and arrested 155 employees for making fraudulent calls to people living in the US and duping them, police said on Friday.

A fake international call centre was busted and 115 members of an interstate gang who allegedly cheated US citizens by impersonating executives of an e-commerce giant were arrested, the Hyberabad Police on Friday said.

Three people, including the main accused, were arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly defrauding several US citizens of more than 20 million dollars by posing as a senior Drug Enforcement Agency official.

A Russian national appeared in a US federal court on Thursday after he was extradited from South Korea to Ohio to face charges for his alleged role in a cybercriminal organization, the US Department of Justice said.

The cyber crime cell of Goa Police today claimed to have busted a fake call centre, arresting 13 persons for allegedly posing as officials representing the US Social Security Administration and extorting money from US citizens, police said.

US President Joe Biden last week expressed concern about the recent increase in cyberattacks.

The US government has announced reward payments of up to $10 million (roughly Rs. 74.6 crores) for tips that led to the arrest of cyber criminals. In a first for a US state agency, the reward payment options include cryptocurrency payouts.

Russia will work together with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the RIA news agency quoted FSB security service chief Alexander Bortnikov as saying on Wednesday.

The US Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official said.

BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the United States including private equity giant KKR and short seller Muddy Waters, according to three former employees, outside researchers, and a trail of online evidence.

According to F-Secure's honeypot data, Russia, the US, China, the Netherlands and Germany targeted India with 436,090 attacks.

An Indian-origin man is among three persons sentenced for their roles in staging a cyberattack that brought down huge swathes of the internet and infected over 100,000 US-based computing devices

Russia had nothing to do with a massive global cyberattack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, criticising the US intelligence community for creating the original software.

According to prosecutors, Findikoglu masterminded three complex, global financial crimes by hacking into different credit card processors.

A 42-year-old American has been arrested in Hyderabad on suspicion of circulating child pornography on the internet, police said on Thursday, adding that they were investigating whether any of the victims had been trafficked.