Kerala police takes down 18k cyber finance fraud websites

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In an indication of the wide net that cyber financial criminals have cast, the cyber division of the state police took down about 18,000 websites and 12,000 social media accounts involved in malicious activities in the last one year.

Highly-placed sources said investigators removed 18,609 websites and 11,948 social media accounts from the cyberspace after serving notices to the domain registrar and social media platforms, respectively.