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Rise of AI-driven Cybercrime
Context:
The Government highlighted measures to curb AI-driven cybercrimes and financial frauds, with I4C reporting savings of over ?5,489 crore through the CFCFRMS system.
Institutional Framework:
- Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C): Nodal body under MHA to coordinate and deal with cybercrimes.
- National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP): Public platform to lodge cybercrime complaints.
- Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System (CFCFRMS): Operational since 2021; over ?5,489 crore saved from 82 lakh complaints. Helpline: 1930.
- Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre (CFMC): Includes banks, payment aggregators, TSPs, IT intermediaries and police for real-time fraud mitigation.
Technological Measures:
- ASTR (AI & Big Data tool): Identifies mobile connections obtained under multiple fake identities. Over 82 lakh connections disconnected.
- National Cyber Forensic Laboratory (Investigation): Provides forensic support; assisted in 12,460 cases.
- Samanvaya Platform: MIS-based data repository, interstate crime linkage analysis, techno-legal support. Module Pratibimb maps criminal networks.
- CyMAC (Cyber Multi Agency Centre): Established Jan 2025 under MAC to address cybersecurity threats and AI-driven espionage.
- AI Cyber Guard Hackathon (with IndiaAI): To build AI tools for automatic cybercrime classification.
Capacity Building:
- CyTrain Portal (MOOC platform): Over 1,05,796 police officers enrolled, 82,704 certificates issued.
- Awareness campaigns with CBSE, NCC, NSS, NYKS.
- RBI campaigns (BE(A)WARE, Raju and the Forty Thieves) on financial frauds.
Awareness Initiatives:
- Caller tune campaign (1930 helpline & NCRP portal).
- National campaigns against Digital Arrest Scams (ads, social media influencers, metro announcements, cinema halls, Kumbh Mela 2025, IPL, MyGov campaigns).
- Walkathons, radio, TV, school campaigns, celebrity endorsements.
Impact:
- Over 42 lakh SIM cards and 2.63 lakh IMEIs blocked.
- Arrest of 12,987 accused and over 51 lakh interstate linkages detected.
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