Govt to use AI to track mule accounts in cyber fraud crackdown: Amit Shah

The Indian government will leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify ‘mule’ accounts used by cybercriminals to store illicit funds, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Chairing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on ‘Cyber Security and Cyber Crime’ in New Delhi on Monday (February 10), Shah disclosed that 805 apps and 3,266 website links had been blocked following recommendations from the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), the government’s cybercrime monitoring and detection unit.