Tag: cybercrime
FIA apprehends four on data theft related charges
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cybercrime Wing apprehended four suspects from Lahore, Gujranwala, and Faisalabad who were allegedly involved in phishing and providing...
Man sentenced to eight years for uploading women’s pictures to Facebook
PESHAWAR: A sessions court on Wednesday sentenced a man to eight years in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and uploading pictures of women...
FIA arrests prime suspect in Rs3bn online currency fraud
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday arrested a man on charges of committing online electronic currency fraud worth Rs3 billion in Karachi.
Prime suspect Ghulam...
BankIslami lost $6m within 23 minutes in cyber attack
--Finance Minister Asad Umar says according to SBP, no other bank had reported hacking of customers' data
--State Minister Hammad Azhar says 6,000 BankIslami accounts...
5,500 cybercrime complaints registered with FIA in Lahore this year
--Sources say people avoid filing online complaints due to slow, time-consuming process
--FIA says process not slow, cybercrime cases are treated differently
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency...
Man’s bank account hacked over phone call
A man had his bank account hacked after he was tricked into revealing his bank account details over a phone call.
According to reports, Muhammad...
Buying sex online? Don’t worry, govt’s sleeping!
--Escort agencies targeting youngsters by promoting businesses on social media platforms
--Some businesses exclusively for elite; offer models, television hosts, actors, foreigners
--Clients get secretly recorded...
FIA arrests woman for impersonating friend on social media
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested a woman for creating a fake social media account of her friend and maligning her over...
Govt declares jurisdictions of cybercrime reporting centres across country
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Interior on Tuesday notified the jurisdictions of Cybercrime Reporting Centres across the country, where complaints pertaining to Prevention of Cybercrime Act 2016,...
Vlogger booked for claiming IHC judge ‘struck deal’ with Nawaz, family
--Abdul Shakoor accuses Justice Athar Minallah of receiving apartment in UK as ‘gift’
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has registered a First Information Report (FIR)...
IHC reserves verdict in Hayat Preghal case
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday reserved judgement in a petition seeking bail of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activist Hayat Preghal booked under...
Suspended SSP moves LHC against lower court judges
LAHORE: Suspended SSP Junaid Arshad of Police Services of Pakistan (PSP) has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) against District and Sessions...
FIA nabs prime suspect of child pornography racket
Gang involved in swindling millions of rupees by impersonating military officials held
RAWALPINDI: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cybercrime Wing Deputy Director Syed Shahid Hassan on...
Three Nigerian nationals arrested by FIA Cybercrime Wing
RAWALPINDI: Three Nigerian nationals were arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cybercrime Wing for using social media to allegedly commit online fraud.
FIA Cybercrime Wing Deputy...
SP who posted wife’s private pictures online declared ‘absconder’ by FIA
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cyber-crime wing on Monday declared a senior Punjab Police officer an absconder months after he fled the court following the rejection of...
FIA helpless as incidents of cybercrime reach a new high
LAHORE: With more than a thousand incidents of cybercrime being reported in Punjab within the past two months and people being conned of millions of...
FIA officials forced me to have sex with main blasphemy accused,...
LAHORE: A suspect in a blasphemy case, who jumped from the fourth floor of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Punjab headquarters building during investigation...
