{"id":1013765,"date":"2026-06-11T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013765"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:25:04","slug":"were-still-losing-the-battle-indias-first-female-cybercrime-investigator-sounds-the-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/11\/were-still-losing-the-battle-indias-first-female-cybercrime-investigator-sounds-the-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Still Losing the Battle: India\u2019s First Female Cybercrime Investigator Sounds the Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were frameworks, cyber cells, or people had even heard the word \u2018cybercrime\u2019 \u2014 there was Pattathil Dhanya Menon, already extracting data from corrupted floppy disks with nobody to ask for help. In 25 years as India\u2019s first female cybercrime investigator, she has worked on cases of stalking, sextortion rings, organisational data heists, and investment scams that have gutted families whole. The founder of Avanti Cybersecurity Solutions Pvt Ltd has trained police forces, advised ministries, and run awareness sessions in schools across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were frameworks, cyber cells, or people had even heard the word \u2018cybercrime\u2019 \u2014 there was Pattathil Dhanya Menon, already extracting data from corrupted floppy disks with nobody to ask for help. In 25 years as India\u2019s first female cybercrime investigator, she has worked on cases of stalking, sextortion rings, organisational data heists, and investment scams that have gutted families whole. The founder of Avanti Cybersecurity Solutions Pvt Ltd has trained police forces, advised ministries, and run awareness sessions in schools across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013794,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013765\/revisions\/1013794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}