Cyber Crooks Switch to Data-Based Victim Hunting
Cyber fraudsters have shifted from sending random messages to targeting individuals based on their personal information, using details such as pregnancy, childbirth and recent marriages to lure victims into purported government welfare schemes through fraudulent web links.
Read the full report on Deccan Chronicle
Story file
- Section
- Tech
- Topics
- Government schemes
- Places
- Telangana
- First reported by
- Deccan Chronicle
- Reporter
- syed omar farooq
- Published
- Thursday, 8 October 2026, 9:27 pm IST
- Coverage
- One outlet so far
How this page works. The Headline Update lists this report from Deccan Chronicle with a short summary and a link to the original. The original reporting and photograph belong to the publisher. Spotted an error in our summary? Tell our corrections desk.
