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NEW DELHI: Jamtara, many believe, is the cyber crime capital of the country, but the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) has found over the past few months new hotspots of online financial fraud. Places like Mewat, Azamgarh, Ahmedabad, Alwar, Surat, Bharatpur, Chittoor, Dhubri, Goalpara, Bhiwani, Jamui, Nawada, Durgapur and Asansol are on that list.
I4C was launched in January 2020 by Union home minister Amit Shah to deal with cyber crime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. Over 250 banks and financial intermediaries have been onboarded to assist in ‘real-time action’. This has resulted in the recovery of over Rs 235 crore swindled by cybercriminals from over 1.3 lakh people, Shah said on Tuesday.
Shah said that over 20 lakh complaints had been registered on the national cyber crime reporting portal thus far, with 40,000 converted into FIRs. He said that seven joint cyber crime coordination teams had been formed for “cyber crime hotspot areas” of Mewat, Jamtara, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Visakhapatnam and Guwahati. He said 500 mobile applications of developers from “hostile” countries have been blocked. These apps, hosted on Google Playstore or Apple app store, were using data shared by users to further such countries’ interests.
An analytical report on the modus operandi of top 50 cyber-attacks, including the one that targetted AIIMS, has been prepared, he said.
Listing the government’s efforts to digitise the criminal justice system, he said 99% of the country’s police stations were registering 100% of FIRs online and 12.3 crore of the 12.8 crore requests had been disposed of.
The national automatic fingerprint identification system database now had “over 1 crore fingerprints of criminals”, Shah said, adding that it would help in solving cases with a simple fingerprint match.
Shah said that details of 13 lakh sex offenders were now part of the national database. Three more databases – that of arrested narco-offenders, offenders of foreign origin and human traffickers (which currently has 92,822 persons) – were launched over the past one yea.
I4C was launched in January 2020 by Union home minister Amit Shah to deal with cyber crime in a coordinated and comprehensive manner. Over 250 banks and financial intermediaries have been onboarded to assist in ‘real-time action’. This has resulted in the recovery of over Rs 235 crore swindled by cybercriminals from over 1.3 lakh people, Shah said on Tuesday.
Shah said that over 20 lakh complaints had been registered on the national cyber crime reporting portal thus far, with 40,000 converted into FIRs. He said that seven joint cyber crime coordination teams had been formed for “cyber crime hotspot areas” of Mewat, Jamtara, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Visakhapatnam and Guwahati. He said 500 mobile applications of developers from “hostile” countries have been blocked. These apps, hosted on Google Playstore or Apple app store, were using data shared by users to further such countries’ interests.
An analytical report on the modus operandi of top 50 cyber-attacks, including the one that targetted AIIMS, has been prepared, he said.
Listing the government’s efforts to digitise the criminal justice system, he said 99% of the country’s police stations were registering 100% of FIRs online and 12.3 crore of the 12.8 crore requests had been disposed of.
The national automatic fingerprint identification system database now had “over 1 crore fingerprints of criminals”, Shah said, adding that it would help in solving cases with a simple fingerprint match.
Shah said that details of 13 lakh sex offenders were now part of the national database. Three more databases – that of arrested narco-offenders, offenders of foreign origin and human traffickers (which currently has 92,822 persons) – were launched over the past one yea.
