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Cyber Crime Investigation Cell [5] is a wing of Mumbai Police, India, to deal with computer crimes, and to enforce provisions of India's Information Technology Law, namely, The Information Technology Act, 2000, and various cyber crime-related provisions of criminal laws, including the Indian Penal Code, and the Companies Act of India subsection on IT-Sector responsibilities of corporate ...
The scheme to set up the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre was approved in October 2018 by the Ministry of Home Affairs (India). It was inaugurated in New Delhi in January 2020 by Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India. [6] In June 2020, on the recommendation of I4C, the Government of India banned 59 Chinese origin mobile apps. [7] [8]
They also claimed WhatsApp sent messages to different people whose phones were hacked. One such message was also received from the WhatsApp of Priyanka Gandhi a few months ago. [10] Former Chief Financial officer of Infosys Mr. T.V. Mohandas Pai also demanded government to probe on the scandal and to come out with a report before the public. [11]
Illegal Access: “Hacking” is one of the major forms of offenses that refers to unlawful access to a computer system.. Data Espionage: Offenders can intercept communications between users (such as e-mails) by targeting communication infrastructure such as fixed lines or wireless, and any Internet service (e.g., e-mail servers, chat or VoIP communications).
India's Aadhar data breach was one of the biggest data breaches in 2018. In early 2018, Indian government's identification database Aadhaar (similar to SSN ) was reported to be leaking information on every registered Indian citizens [ 10 ] including names, bank details and other private information like biometric data. [ 11 ]
The World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report ranked cybercrime as one of the top 10 risks facing the world today and for the next 10 years. [5] If viewed as a nation state, cybercrime would count as the third largest economy in the world. [6] In numbers, cybercrime is predicted to cause over 9 trillion US dollars in damages worldwide ...
In India, the Pegasus Project investigations alleged that the Pegasus spyware was used on ministers, opposition leaders, political strategist and tacticians, journalists, activists, minority leaders, Supreme Court judges, religious leaders, administrators like Election Commissioners and heads of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Citizen Lab discovered that the attackers were using a custom URL shortener that allowed enumeration, giving them access to a list of 28,000 URLs.Some of those URLs redirected to websites looking like Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox or various webmails – each page customized with the name of the victim, asking the user to re-enter their password.