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Cybersecurity, privacy, and the fight to stay safe online.
Hyderabad City Cyber Crime arrested eleven people for cloning the EPFO unified member portal login and OTP pages on Telugu-language domains, draining provident fund advances from 340 salaried accounts after victims entered Aadhaar-linked OTPs on lookalike hosts.
NPCI ordered banks and UPI apps to attach device fingerprints and step-up authentication on collect requests above ₹1 lakh from 1 October, after fraud desks traced mule rings abusing high-value merchant QR collect flows during Trump–Xi FX volatility week.
India’s Supreme Court held Monday that police must give arrested people written grounds they can understand—even under special statutes such as UAPA and PMLA—and that a prior illegal arrest cannot be cured by a quick re-arrest on the same facts.
Mumbai Police Cyber Cell froze more than 140 mule accounts tied to fake IPO allotment lottery sites, after investors paid “stamp duty” through UPI to claim shares they never held.
CERT-In warned that fraudsters are pushing UPI collect requests through look-alike NHAI Fastag recharge pages, with losses clustering around highway toll plazas and fleet operators who bulk-top wallets.
C-DAC Pune published a firmware conformance calendar for AePS micro-ATM vendors ahead of the Kisan Mela season, tying PIN-entry devices and Luna-class HSMs to NPCI micro-ATM 1.5.1 checks before rural cash-withdrawal traffic peaks.
