cybercrime
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Singapore has mandated caning of up to 24 strokes for scammers from December 30 as part of new legislation aiming to tackle the rise in fraud cases. The law, approved by parliament last month, augment...
Latvian and Ukrainian authorities have uncovered a financial crime syndicate involving 300 individuals, with 213 of them being Latvian teenagers enlisted in a fraudulent scheme valued at around €1.6 m...
Hong Kong customs have arrested five individuals suspected of laundering HK$8.9 billion over four years using a sophisticated scheme involving fake shipping websites for what authorities describe as '...
Alexis Chavez has pleaded guilty to coercing multiple victims during a long-term criminal operation as part of a violent extremist group he joined when underage in 2022. This marks another legal setba...
A 17-year-old Chinese individual has been sentenced to six years in prison for making over 11,900 fraudulent refund applications on a cosmetics shopping platform, without returning the goods. The teen...
A French court is set to deliver its verdict regarding cyber harassment against First Lady Brigitte Macron, with the case focusing on the dissemination of false information about her personal life. Th...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed charges against a resident of New Delhi for impersonating Prime Minister Narendra Modi in emails sent to the Pentagon and the Indian Space Research ...
A man was arrested in Birmingham on suspicion of advertising people smuggling services through social media platforms as part of an operation by the National Crime Agency and West Midlands Police....