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When the Government of India called Telegram the “new dark web,” it was not merely a label – it was an indictment. The nefarious elements that have colonised this platform have, over the years, constructed a thriving criminal ecosystem that preys upon the hopes, ambitions and aspirations of over 22 lakh students and the very sanctity of India’s most competitive examinations—at most times the passport to a a glorious career ahead.

Indonesia is moving on. It is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies – a nation rewriting its future with government platforms, financial networks and critical infrastructure that live increasingly online. But with that growth comes a shadow moving just as fast — cybercriminals, AI-driven fraud and a new generation of deepfake-enabled deception designed to exploit exactly the systems Indonesia is building.

The evil forces lurking in cyberspace have stopped to a new low. Now they have now started stealing the most credible faces the faces of the country to propagate their evil scheme.

BSNL was breached the second time and this the hackers walked away with 278 GB of data of sensitive data of the state-owned telecom major. Cybercriminals hit Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for the second time in six months and this time they pilfered far more alarming stuff than just walking away with their user data. India’s state-owned telecom behemoth has been targeted by a threat actor “kiberphant0m” who claimed to have accessed sensitive operational data, of the company, including international mobile subscriber identity numbers, SIM card information, home location register data and critical security keys. Athenian Tech got wind of breach investigated it and notified the proper authorities about it.

The sophisticated deepfakes that have flooded social media not only needs a discerning eye to look through the garb but also requires proper awareness about the matter. The spate of sophisticated deepfake videos that are being pelted, in the recent past shows one thing, for sure the level of sophistication that the nefarious elements dotting the cyberspace have started to resort to, with the sole intention of making quick money. In their endeavour to be successful, in their evil designs, these bad elements have not spared even the most powerful of figures in the political sphere and even in the corporate world.

Sinister elements have been embracing AI to achieve their evil machinations and also to harm the image of influential people, Prime Minister Modi and Google’s Boss to name a few. A digital risk management firm, Athenian Tech (AT), has raised alarm over a fast-growing wave of AI-powered financial fraud across India in a deeply unsettling revelation. Its report, titled “False Endorsements, Real Losses,” lays bare how sophisticated deepfake technology is being weaponised not just to steal money, but to systematically hijack the credibility of the country’s most recognisable faces.

Investigations suggests of a breach on a personal machine, of a fomer defece ministry official led to leak of sensitive information including evacuation protocols of VVIPs. In a major development, the bad guys lurking in the dark alleys of cyber space got access to sensitive defence data, including the engineering design of a weapon and evacuation protocols for VVIPs including that of the President of India and the Prime Minister of India.