Tag: cyberfraud
Conventional Phishing attacks involved tricking potential victims to enter their respective usernames and passwords on fake websites which resembled the genuine websites. Once the login credentials were captured, they were used to steal business as well as personal data. A new trend that has emerged is to trick users into downloading malware that once downloaded […]
India’s central bank is moving to protect people who lose money in small-value digital payment fraud. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed a new framework that could offer compensation of up to ₹25,000 to victims of unauthorized digital transactions. The goal is to give users more confidence in online payments while keeping the […]
A rising call forwarding scam is targeting mobile users across India, allowing scammers to intercept OTPs, bank alerts, and verification calls by secretly redirecting incoming calls to another number. Unlike typical frauds, this method doesn’t require victims to share OTPs directly, which makes it harder to detect and more dangerous. TL;DR The call forwarding scam […]