How AI Is Making Financial Scams More Convincing and Difficult to Detect Artificial intelligence is making online financial scams significantly harder to detect, with criminals now using deepfakes, cloned voices, personalised phishing messages, and synthetic identities to ...
AI-Powered Attacks Are Getting Faster, Palo Alto CEO Says Old Defences Won't Be Enough Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has warned that artificial intelligence is forcing companies to fundamentally rethink cybersecurity, estimating that roughly $1 trillion worth of global security in...
Four Held After Malware-Assisted Boss Scam Targets Private Firm Rajasthan Police have arrested four people in connection with an alleged ₹6.80 crore "Boss Scam," a cyber fraud in which criminals allegedly hacked a company's computer system, impersonated its direct...
FBI Investigates Massive Identity Data Leak Linked to Driver's Licence Scans The FBI is reportedly investigating a major identity theft case after digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licences from the United States and Canada were offered for sale on the dark web. ...
Japan Plans AI-Based System to Spot Suspicious Investment Schemes Japan is preparing to use generative artificial intelligence to detect investment fraud earlier, with the country's Consumer Affairs Agency planning to analyse thousands of complaints for warning sign...
Five-Star Kitchens Under Pressure as FSSAI Orders Zero Tolerance Ahead of BRICS Summit The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed major five-star hotels to follow a "zero-tolerance" approach toward food safety violations, ahead of the two-day BRICS Summit in N...
Telangana Legislators Face Tax Evasion Allegations Over Salary Structure The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has raised concerns over the way salaries and allowances are structured for legislators and other public representatives in Telangana, alleging that the arrangement...
Government Raises Windfall Tax on Petrol and Diesel Exports, Cuts ATF Levy The Indian government has increased the windfall tax on petrol and diesel exports while making a marginal reduction in the levy imposed on aviation turbine fuel (ATF). The revised rates came into effe...
Israel’s Rising War Costs Deepen Finance-Defence Spending Dispute Israel’s prolonged military engagements are creating growing pressure on the country’s finances, with the Ministries of Finance and Defence increasingly divided over the scale and management of milita...
African Development Bank, AXIAN Launch Digital Finance Programme for 34,000 Women-led Businesses The African Development Bank and AXIAN Group have launched a new digital finance programme aimed at supporting more than 34,000 women-led businesses across Africa. The initiative is designed to improv...
China Dissents as Bessent Says 19 Finance Ministers Agree to Address "Cheap Exports" U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that 19 of the G20's 20 members agreed to address the flow of "cheap exports" driving global economic imbalances, with China notably dissenting. Spea...
AI-Powered Cyberattacks Raise New Risks for Energy Infrastructure Energy companies are facing a new wave of cyber risk as hackers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence tools to target critical energy systems, security experts warn. As power generation, transm...
