fraudulent activities

About 30 crore people are vulnerable to phishing attacks in India, of which 5 lakh potentially fall prey to scamsters, a top official of cloud communications firm Tanla Platforms said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Hyderabad-based company unveiled an anti-phishing platform during the Congress to prevent phishing messages from reaching subscribers and is running trials on Vodafone Idea network. Tanla Platforms founder, chairman and chief executive officer D Uday Reddy said while the solution has been…

The government is planning to set up a nodal agency called Digital Intelligence Unit (DIU) to work with law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and telecom service providers for investigating fraudulent activities involving telecom resources. The new move is aimed to help better deal with digital frauds in India. Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday chaired a high-level meeting to discuss the rising concerns over pesky messages and voice calls, repeated harassment through…