Centre blocks 17,000 WhatsApp accounts of hackers from South-East Asia

The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) and Department of Telecommunication (DoT) person blocked astatine slightest 17,000 WhatsApp accounts utilized by cyber criminals from South East Asia, it was announced connected Thursday.

In a station connected X societal media platform, CyberDost, a cyber-safety grip maintained by the Ministry of Home Affairs, informed that it aims to disrupt offshore transgression networks and fortify India's integer security.

“I4C, successful collaboration with DoT, has successfully blocked 17,000 WhatsApp accounts utilized by cyber criminals from South East Asia. The inaugural aims to disrupt offshore transgression networks and fortify India's #DigitalSecurity,” CyberDost posted.

In May this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs acceptable up an inter-ministerial committee successful absorption to a large emergence successful transnational organised cybercrime coming from Southeast Asian countries similar Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos-Philippines.

About 45 per cent of cyber-financial frauds successful India travel from places successful Southeast Asia. These crimes person go much analyzable and bigger, which costs the victims a batch of money.

The I4C has taken galore steps to harm the infrastructure that hackers use.

Its probe showed that cybercriminals instrumentality radical into giving them wealth by offering concern chances, games, dating apps, and fake trading platforms.

Notably, Indian teens and young adults person been tricked into going to Cambodia to find work, lone to beryllium forced to perpetrate cybercrimes there.

Indian citizens who were protesting successful a Cambodian metropolis were arrested, and steps were taken to nonstop them backmost location and support them safe.

I4C focuses connected tackling each the issues related to cybercrime for the citizens, which includes improving coordination betwixt assorted Law Enforcement Agencies and the stakeholders, driving alteration successful India's wide capableness to tackle Cybercrime and to amended national restitution levels.

The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre strategy was approved connected October 5, 2018.

Since its rotation out, it has worked towards enhancing the nation's corporate capableness to tackle cybercrimes and make effectual coordination among the instrumentality enforcement agencies.