Inside the first 9 months of its operations, the Hyderabad-headquartered Telangana State Cyber Safety Bureau (TSCSB) has recognized 66,726 inter-State fraudulent hyperlinks throughout the nation. The division has additionally recognized about 19,000 suspicious hyperlinks and brought down 4,481 of them.
The knowledge was shared throughout the ‘cyber hygiene awareness workshop’ performed by the division on Friday. “The department has also managed to take down 1,638 websites hosting such links or landing from these links. The State stood out as a leader in freezing suspicious transactions, with ₹128 crore being frozen by the department. We have also refunded about ₹8 crore back to the victims so far,” mentioned TSCSB director Shikha Goel.
Between 2021 and 2023, over ₹1.33 crore was frozen within the suspects’ financial institution accounts, which is eighteen% of the misplaced quantity in comparison with India’s whole of 12%.
The bureau has additionally blocked 27,600 SIM playing cards utilized by cyber criminals and commenced IMEI (Worldwide Cell Tools Id) blocking as effectively since November 2023. So far, 2,855 IMEIs concerned in cyber offences have been despatched for blocking whereas 181 are already blocked. PT (Prisoner in Transit) warrants in opposition to accused concerned in 12,054 crimes throughout the nation, together with 2025 instances in Telangana, have been executed underneath shut monitoring by the bureau.
First to arrange ‘1930’ helpline
The State was additionally the primary to arrange cyber crimes. On a median, the centre now receives about 2,000 calls per day.
Since its inauguration, the centre, which homes 32 constables as employees members, has obtained about 90,000 calls, which is the best within the nation. “Calls have doubled in the last few months,” Ms Goel mentioned.
The bureau, on February 1, rolled out a specialised coaching centre for 870 police personnel from all police stations throughout the State that may solely deal with cyber crime complaints and associated issues at a police station stage. Furthermore, 13 cyber security advisories have been issued to numerous authorities departments for 2023-24.
“Only one-fourth of the actual cyber crime cases are being reported in the city,” Hyderabad police commissioner Kothakota Sreenivasa Reddy mentioned, highlighting the unreported instances. Over 60% of such instances could be prevented with correct consciousness, he added.
