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The rise of digital arrest as a cybercrime poses a serious challenges for law inforcements in India.There has been an increase in digital arrest scams in India. Scammers use technology to pretend to be government or law enforcement officials in order to coerce victims into complying by intimidating and psychologically manipulating them.In digital arrest, victim is being wrongly accused of a crime.
More flexible career options brought about by the rise in remote work have increased the number of fake job postings and work-from-home scams.
A supply chain attack is a type of cyberattack that targets at a reliable third-party vendor that provides software or services vital to the supply chain.
When a hacker installs a fake Wi-Fi access point that looks like a real one, it’s known as an evil twin attack. It is intended to trick users into connecting to this rogue access point by making them believe they are connecting to a reliable network.
Whale phishing, also known as whaling, is a kind of phishing attack in which fake emails, texts, or phone calls are sent to senior corporate executives.
The term “code injection” refers attacks in which malicious code is injected into an application. The performance and functionality of the program are then impacted as the code is interpreted or run by the application. Existing data vulnerabilities, like improper processing of data from untrusted sources, are usually exploited by code injection attacks.
Cybercriminals known as the Yahoo Boys, who are based in Nigeria, prey on victims in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and other parts of the world.Mostly young, unemployed men, they use romance scams to defraud their victims.
The Nigerian prince scam is a type of advance-fee fraud in which con artists demand small upfront payments in exchange for massive amounts of money.
On the Internet, a large number of children and young people experience sexual harassment and abuse. Cyber grooming is the preparation for these crimes.
A common tactics used by cybercriminals to compromise accounts is through scams.Phishing emails and SMS trick victims into disclosing personal information to cybercriminals.