Young people more often involved in fraud and cybercrime
2 years ago

Young people more often involved in fraud and cybercrime

NL Times  

Young people are increasingly involved in cybercrime cases. In actual numbers, the number of cybercrime cases involving young suspects increased from 278 in 2018 to 1,329 last year, NOS reports based on figures from the Public Prosecution Service The massive increase in cybercrime cases with young suspects is partly due to a change in registration methods. “Cybercrime has mingled with organized crime, which has discovered that there is a lot to be made here.” The police expect cybercrime to become an even bigger problem in the future, Theo van der Plas, responsible for cybercrime at the police, said to NOS. “Young people earn capital and then use it to buy and trade drugs.” Both the police and OM said that it is becoming easier to commit cybercrime due to ready-made tools for committing fraud or DDoS attacks, for example.

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Telangana Cyber Crime Police Arrests 165 Criminals
1 month, 1 week ago

Telangana Cyber Crime Police Arrests 165 Criminals

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: More than half of those suspected of committing cyber fraud are not super-qualified professionals, it turns out. About 35 per cent had only cleared their SSC or had dropped out earlier, and another 20 per cent had only cleared their Intermediate, according to data developed by the Telangana Cybercrime Security Bureau. The bureau said the remaining 45 per cent …

Crooks are not getting younger and more violent, research shows
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Crooks are not getting younger and more violent, research shows

Dutch News  

The widespread view that criminals are getting younger and more violent is not borne out by the facts, according to research by the government’s scientific research centre WODC. The research is based on both police figures and online surveys answered by 20,000 youngsters between the age of 10 and 23. At the same time, the percentage of youngsters who say …

Perpetrator unidentified in 90% of cybercrime cases
9 months, 1 week ago

Perpetrator unidentified in 90% of cybercrime cases

NL Times  

The number of digital fraud, scams, and thefts is increasing, but the police are barely succeeding in finding the perpetrators. While the reality is that some of this is simply fraud witha plug attached to it.” The researchers studied reported cybercrime cases between 2018 and 2020 and interviewed numerous people involved, including the police. “Nowadays more people are victims of …

Countering Cybercrime: MHA’s Role in Tackling Growing Menace of Cyber Criminals
10 months, 1 week ago

Countering Cybercrime: MHA’s Role in Tackling Growing Menace of Cyber Criminals

News 18  

In October last year, Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah had said that building a Cyber Safe India is one of the top priorities of the Modi government. Armed with cutting-edge technology, “these teams are under the ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre’ covering the whole country based upon cybercrime hotspots/areas having multi-jurisdictional issues by onboarding States/UTs to enhance the …

Cyber crime cases: Online impersonation complaints toughest to investigate | Data
1 year ago

Cyber crime cases: Online impersonation complaints toughest to investigate | Data

The Hindu  

The recently released annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau shows that the number of reported cyber crime cases in India shot up significantly in 2022. Chart 1 | The chart shows the number of new cyber crime cases reported from 2016 to 2022. Chart 2 | The chart shows the number of cyber crime cases reported and the …

Build up tech to put down cyber criminals
1 year ago

Build up tech to put down cyber criminals

New Indian Express  

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 65,893 cybercrimes were registered across India in 2022, a 24.4 per cent increase over 2021. And the conviction rate is very poor—most of the perpetrators use elusive virtual private networks and proxy servers, and remain unidentified and untraceable. Global assessment of cyber security indicates that there are 2,200 cyber attacks per day—one every …

NCRB data: Crime against women rose by 28.34% in 2022; Pune records rise in cybercrime cases
1 year ago

NCRB data: Crime against women rose by 28.34% in 2022; Pune records rise in cybercrime cases

Hindustan Times  

The crimes against women, Scheduled Castes, economic offences and cyber crimes rose by 28.34 %, 90.62 %, 45.10 % and 58.67 % respectively. However, crimes against children were reduced by 12.33 % in Pune city in 2022, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau annual report. As far as cyber crimes are concerned, it has increased by 58.67 % …

Juveniles involved in over 2,400 criminal cases, cyber crimes doubled in Delhi in 2022: NCRB data
1 year ago

Juveniles involved in over 2,400 criminal cases, cyber crimes doubled in Delhi in 2022: NCRB data

India TV News  

NRCB report: The latest National Crime Records Bureau data revealed that Juveniles were found to be involved in 2,436 criminal cases reported in Delhi in 2022. According to the NCRB data, Delhi was followed by Chennai where juveniles were found to be involved in 521 criminal cases last year. Cyber crime cases in Delhi In its report, the NCRB also …

Cyber criminals swiped ₹21 crore from Chandigarh residents so far in 2023
1 year, 1 month ago

Cyber criminals swiped ₹21 crore from Chandigarh residents so far in 2023

Hindustan Times  

Cyber criminals have defrauded city residents of a whopping ₹21 crore since January 1 this year, police data reveals. Through concerted efforts, police say they have also arrested 100 cyber criminals this year. Even last year, around city residents lost ₹34 crore to cyber crime, but police also managed to arrest 144 fraudsters, a major spike from around 30 annually …

Bengaluru and Hyderabad lead in cybercrime
1 year, 11 months ago

Bengaluru and Hyderabad lead in cybercrime

Live Mint  

In November, hackers infiltrated the servers of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, leading to a weeks-long hiatus in crucial services. Since 2020, a government portal for citizens to report cybercrime has recorded over 1.6 million incidents, but only around 32,000 FIRs—a conversion rate of one in 50, suggests data shared by the home ministry in Parliament. Uttar Pradesh, …

Data | With awareness levels increasing in urban pockets, cyber criminals now target non-metro areas
2 years, 3 months ago

Data | With awareness levels increasing in urban pockets, cyber criminals now target non-metro areas

The Hindu  

With the awareness levels improving in urban pockets, cyber criminals are increasingly targetting bank customers from non-metropolitan areas, the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau show. Worryingly, about 25% of cyber fraud investigations carried out by the police are closed with the final report saying “cases true but insufficient evidence or untraced or no clue”. Moving away The …

Uttarakhand recorded 195% increase in cybercrimes in 2021: NCRB
2 years, 3 months ago

Uttarakhand recorded 195% increase in cybercrimes in 2021: NCRB

Hindustan Times  

Uttarakhand recorded a 195% increase in cybercrime in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau. The crime rate of cyber fraud cases, which is crime incidence per one lakh of the population, stood at 6.3 per cent, which is the fourth highest in the country after Telangana, Assam, and Karnataka. …

5% Rise in Cybercrimes in India in 2021, Charge-sheeting Only in One-third Cases: Govt Data
2 years, 3 months ago

5% Rise in Cybercrimes in India in 2021, Charge-sheeting Only in One-third Cases: Govt Data

News 18  

India reported 52,974 cases of cybercrime in 2021, an increase of over 5 per cent from 2020 and over 15 per cent from 2019, according to latest government data. Over 70 per cent of the cybercrime cases were reported from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Assam, the National Crime Records Bureau’s ‘Crime In India 2021’ report showed. The charge-sheeting …

Data | With just 1 out of 1,000 cases reaching verdicts, cybercriminals targeting kids go scot-free in India
2 years, 4 months ago

Data | With just 1 out of 1,000 cases reaching verdicts, cybercriminals targeting kids go scot-free in India

The Hindu  

Of the over 1,000 cases of cybercrimes committed against children that were sent for trial, between 2017 and 2020, only six have resulted in a conviction and 98% are still pending in various courts. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were the two States where the most cases were reported according to the latest Crime Report by the NCRB State-wise cases The …

Increase in number of rape cases by friends on social media, report by Mum police
2 years, 10 months ago

Increase in number of rape cases by friends on social media, report by Mum police

The Hindu  

There has been an increase in the number of rape cases against women and children by friends made on social media on the promise of marrying them, says the Annual Police Report of 2021. Talking about steps taken to ensure prevention of crime against women, Commissioner of Police Hemant Nagrale said, “Each police station has one Nirbhaya Squad that works …

11 per cent jump in cyber crime in 2020, NCRB data in Home Panel report
2 years, 10 months ago

11 per cent jump in cyber crime in 2020, NCRB data in Home Panel report

India TV News  

Highlights As per NCRB data, India reported an 11% jump in cyber crime in the year 2020 The data for 2020 has been obtained from the report "Crime in India, 2020 of the NCRB A total of 50,035 cases in 2020 were registered under cyber crimes As per the National Crime Record Bureau data, India reported an 11 per cent …

Cyber Crimes in India Spiked Nearly Nine Times Since 2013, UP Topped Chart in 2020: Data
3 years, 3 months ago

Cyber Crimes in India Spiked Nearly Nine Times Since 2013, UP Topped Chart in 2020: Data

News 18  

The incidents of cyber crimes in India have been increasing at a rapid pace and jumped by nearly nine times between 2013 and 2020, official data showed. As per the latest ‘Crime in India’ report, cyber crimes in India increased to 50,035 during 2020 from 5,693 cases reported in 2013. While most of the states have reported a jump in …

Crimes against women dip by 24%, cybercrimes see 55% rise: NCRB data
3 years, 3 months ago

Crimes against women dip by 24%, cybercrimes see 55% rise: NCRB data

The Hindu  

Crime against women in the Capital has reduced by 24% in 2020 as compared to 2019, shows the data shared by National Crime Records Bureau. Assault on women stood at 938 in 2020 as opposed to 1,088 in 2019 and sexual harassment stood at 862 cases in 2020 as compared to 644 in 2020. Overall slump Across the 19 metropolitan …

More and more minors involved in serious violent crimes
3 years, 6 months ago

More and more minors involved in serious violent crimes

NL Times  

The level of youth crime in the Netherlands decreased between 2015 and 2021 compared to 15 years before. However, the number of serious violent crimes committed by minors during this time period is on the rise. In addition, the proportion of minors registered by the police as suspects of incidents involving weapons during 2020 was two percent higher than in …

Crime fell by 1% overall but cybercrime jumped by 127%
3 years, 7 months ago

Crime fell by 1% overall but cybercrime jumped by 127%

NL Times  

The number of registered crimes in the Netherlands decreased last year by about ten thousand to a total of 795 thousand, police stated in their annual report. Home invasions, robberies and street muggings in the Netherlands occurred less often last year, which is likely a result of government-imposed lockdown restrictions. Police said there was an astonishing 127% increase in the …

Delhi reported steep spike in cybercrimes during lockdown period: Police
3 years, 10 months ago

Delhi reported steep spike in cybercrimes during lockdown period: Police

India TV News  

The number of cybercrime cases reported in the national capital spiked during last year's lockdown period, from nearly 2,000 in March to over 4,000 in May, as fraudsters adopted new methods to cheat people, the Delhi Police said on Friday. Speaking at the annual press conference, Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava said cybercrimes peaked during the COVID time and …

MHA tells States to register more FIRs for cybercrime
4 years, 1 month ago

MHA tells States to register more FIRs for cybercrime

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Home Affairs has written to all States to examine and register FIRs based on the complaints received on National Cybercrime Reporting Portal- www.cybercrime.gov.in. Low conversion Since its launch last year, the portal has received over 2 lakh complaints, but FIRs have been registered only in 5,000 cases. On February 4, Union Minister of State for Home G. …

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