: Despite rising incidents of cyber fraud, awareness continues to be low #IndiaNEWS #National,Crime/Disaster/Accident By Supriya RameshNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Those days are long gone when cheating

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By Supriya RameshNew Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Those days are long gone when cheating people for money would be limited to fooling them about their debit cards being blocked by the bank and retrieving OTP by convincing them.
In the age of the internet, we now have different kinds of uglier frauds happening online under the pretext of offering jobs, payment of electricity bills, cryptocurrency investment, insurance fraud, sextortion and more.
Swindlers reach out to people via SMS, call, email, or other ways to get personal information. They often use malicious links directing an individual to an app or website to hack into the computer, mobile device, or network to get sensitive information, such as bank account numbers, credit card details, and social security numbers.
Emerging technologies are being extensively misused for criminal purposes like Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Now, there is darknet (where people anonymously communicate and share files with each other) and find various websites advertising. Their cyber crime is a service powered by AI.
People have started using ChatGPT a chatbot developed by OpenAI by appropriate prompt command engineering in such a manner that they are forcing the software to come up with new innovative approaches on how to commit criminal activities.
With these kinds of options coming in, we are now finding a scenario where the country needs to address the issues of cyber crime and emerging technologies.
Everybody is a potential target today, from digital stakeholders to users. It is a threat to individuals, corporations, nations and to the enjoyment of individual digital rights, but if we start inculcating cyber security as a way of life in our lives, it could be a good starting point.
To date, however, what remains a challenge is the detection of cases and awareness about cyber fraud.
Post-pandemic, the internet has become an integral part of our lives and this rings an alarm for every stakeholder to be sensitised about the significance of cyber security and how to deal with it.
We have started giving devices to children at a very young age, which is a very convenient way of putting them into deep waters without even telling them how to swim in these deep waters of the internet.
The Chairman of International Commission on Cyber Security Law, Pavan Duggal, told IANS that he has been educating and advising the government, including the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), that we now need to incorporate cyber crime and cyber law education as a part of the school curriculum from the first standard onwards.
Talking about sensitising people about cyber security, Duggal said there should be first a proper allocation of budget for cybercrime.

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