{"id":958342,"date":"2025-08-28T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958342"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:30:46","slug":"joint-effort-cbi-fbi-bust-major-cybercrime-network-40m-fraud-exposed-in-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/joint-effort-cbi-fbi-bust-major-cybercrime-network-40m-fraud-exposed-in-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint effort: CBI, FBI bust major cybercrime network; $40M fraud exposed in crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in India on Wednesday said a major cybercrime syndicate has been dismantled through joint efforts by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/p>\n<p>According to the embassy\u2019s post on X, the operation targeted a network accused of defrauding US nationals of nearly $40 million through tech-support scams. Key figures behind the fraud were arrested during the coordinated action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in India on Wednesday said a major cybercrime syndicate has been dismantled through joint efforts by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to the embassy\u2019s post on X, the operation targeted a network accused of defrauding US nationals of nearly $40 million through tech-support scams. Key figures behind the fraud were arrested during the coordinated action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958342","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}