Surat: A 71-year-old man lost Rs 5 lakh in a cyber fraud after allegedly clicking on a malicious APK file masquerading as a Punjab National Bank application.The victim, who runs a pesticides business in Sardar Market, received a file named “PNB One.apk” from an unknown number on WhatsApp on May 15. Believing it was a…
Ahmedabad: A 76-year-old retired banker lost Rs 11.4 lakh to cyberfraudsters after downloading a fake customer support application sent through WhatsApp by a man posing as a bank manager.According to the FIR lodged by the Cybercrime police, the complainant, who served at a public sector bank for 16 years, was a member of a WhatsApp…
A cybersecurity analyst monitors digital forensics data on multiple screens as a cyberfraud attack targets online banking and identity theft systems. Bengaluru: A 58-year-old para-athlete and shot-putter, awarded Padma Shri in 2021, allegedly lost Rs 90,000 from his account in an online fraud despite alerting the bank after receiving suspicious OTP messages late at night.Venkatesh…
NCRB Economic offences data for Bengaluru Bengaluru: India’s tech capital witnessed at least one economic offence — including forgery, cheating, fraud, financial scams, and related white-collar crimes — every 2.5 hours over the past three years (2022, 2023 and 2024) for which crime data is available.In all, the city reported 10,580 such cases during these…
Mysuru: A senior citizen lost over Rs 24 lakh after fraudsters allegedly installed an APK file on her smartphone, with the crime going undetected for months as she did not check her bank statements.CEN police, who have registered an FIR, said the woman last withdrew money from her account in June 2025 and visited the…
Pune: A 37-year-old security guard working with a private company in Hinjewadi lost Rs 3.98 lakh to cybercrooks in a fake RTO-Challan fraud on May 8.He registered a case with the Hinjewadi police on Tuesday.An officer from the Hinjewadi police said, “The complainant works as a security guard with a private company. On May 8,…
Prayagraj: Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, in partnership with Central Bank of India, has launched Cyber Security Hackathon-2026, inviting students from IITs, NITs and other government institutions to develop solutions to combat rising online banking frauds.The competition will be conducted in three stages. In the first phase, ideas and concepts submitted by the participants…
