Govt to use AI to track ‘mule’ accounts as Amit Shah details cybercrime crackdown

The government is planning to use Artificial Intelligence to identify ‘mule’ accounts where cyber fraudsters park swindled funds, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said.

Chairing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs on the topic of ‘Cyber Security and Cyber Crime’ on Monday, Shah also said that for national security reasons, 805 apps and 3,266 website links have been blocked based on the recommendations of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the government’s cybercrime monitoring and detection wing.