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Burkina Faso's cybercrime police say online fraud cost victims over US$15 million from 2020 to 2025, ahead of a national awareness week. The post Burkina Faso Cybercrime Losses Top US$15M appeared first on The Rio Times.
According to CCB sources, the agency’s cybercrime wing had earlier questioned Rakesh Shetty in connection with the case
Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan identified five major challenges confronting the next generation of police officers, with particular emphasis on growing sophistication of cybercrime, organised narcotics networks and technology-driven threats to internal security
Police identified 20 mule bank accounts and links to 54 cybercrime cases across India; Chinese national allegedly earned 4% commission for routing stolen funds
Authorities in Thailand have uncovered an audacious scheme involving hundreds of metres of internet cable sent over the Thai border to keep a suspected Myanmar scam compound online, after finding two ramshackle village homes using enough daily bandwidth to power an entire village. Officers raided the homes in Nong Lu, a Thai border village in Kanchanaburi province, which is the gateway to the Three Pagodas Pass in Myanmar – now a notorious hub for cyber scammers. Many scam centre leaders have...
The case raises questions about how banking credentials were compromised and whether personal information associated with electoral applications was obtained through phishing or other means
The cybercrime team had been monitoring the missing mobile phone handsets through their IMEI number at periodical intervals
UPI has become a more trusted and frequently used mode of payment in India; but SPIR 2026 finds a paradox, people who trusted online banking the most and used UPI most often were more likely to have been victims of cybercrime; report shows how fraud networks exploit this trust through deceptive schemes, fake apps and ‘digital arrest’
From online-gambling rings in eSwatini to SIM swapping in Kenya and cybercrime networks in Zambia, a wave of cross-border fraud is drawing African governments and China into closer security cooperation. China hosted East African security ministers and police chiefs in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, on September 10 for talks on terrorism, kidnapping, online fraud and other cross-border threats. China’s public security minister, Wang Xiaohong, said Beijing would strengthen law-enforcement...
The Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2026, based on a survey by Lokniti-CSDS and Common Cause across 16 States, examines two factors that enable the progress of redressal in cybercrime complaints – bribery and using the influence of personal network; both channels are used more often, and appear to work more for the victims from marginalised groups
Amid deeper integration into the digital ecosystem, cybercrime cases rose 17.9% nationally, to 1,01,928 in 2024; respondents who spent more time online were more likely to be targeted by fraudsters, while financial fraud was more closely linked to social and economic status, with wealthier and more educated respondents more likely to report being victims
Addressing the students, personnel explain the functioning of the Shakti app and urge them to seek police assistance without delay in emergencies
The primary responsibility of the desks will be to function as independent wings in each police station, exclusively guiding victims in cybercrime cases