Advocate (Dr.) Prashant Mali's Blog

How A Student Hacked into Teachers WHATSAPP Account? A teacher from Kerala noticed that her WhatsApp account was logged out soon after an online class. Knowing this, she lodged a complaint with cyberpolice. Police cracked the case and found out that the culprit was her student, studying in high school, who logged into the teacher’s account. The technique used by the student was simple. The teacher was using a screen-share app in her phone during the class . So the students were able to see the screen and also the pop-up notification alerts coming into the phone. The ‘culprit’ student then tried to login WhatsApp with teacher’s number in his phone. And the OTP for verification came as pop-up alert in the teacher’s phone which was visible for all the students. Thus the student easily logged in to the account. The teacher did not have two-step verification on the phone and did not have a password. The account in teacher’s phone got logged out as WhatsApp does not allow simultaneous use on...

  Why Cybercrime is increased ? Due to Low Cost I feel You can buy ransomware for  as little as $66 , or hire a threat actor for $250. And if you look hard enough, you can even get a phishing kit for free on underground forums. Although these illicit methods may not be expensive, the damage they inflict can be substantial. Phishing has become more popular than ever. Bhagwat Karad, the minister of state for finance reported to Indian parliament, that more than 50,000 (50,242) cases of cyber frauds, banking frauds using internet banking, ATM-Debit and Credit Cards were registered in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, citing RBI data (April-December 2021 period). During the nine-month period, the victims of these frauds lost a total of nearly Rs 167 crore. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, the number of  phishing complaints more than doubled in 2020  to 241,342 cases compared to the prior year. From there, attacks doubled again as ph...

The criminal use of cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies have been adopted as part of money laundering schemes and are particularly associated with several predicate offences including fraud and drug trafficking. They are also widely used as a means of payment for illegal goods and services offered online and offline. Money laundering is the main criminal activity associated with the illicit use of cryptocurrencies. The growing popularity and adoption of cryptocurrencies have led to their increasing use in money laundering schemes. Other criminal activities that show an intensive use of cryptocurrencies are related to the use of cryptocurrencies as a payment method for illicit goods and services, fraudulent cryptocurrency investments and cybercrime. In all instances, criminals want to obfuscate the source of the illicit assets with cryptocurrencies. A number of indicators show how criminals involved in frauds strongly rely on the use of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are also the mean...