{"id":965011,"date":"2025-09-29T07:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965011"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:36:50","slug":"cyber-criminals-getting-more-personal-this-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/cyber-criminals-getting-more-personal-this-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber criminals getting more personal this festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Divya*, a Mumbai content writer, was finishing work before her Navratri break when she got a WhatsApp text from an unknown number with her roommate&#8217;s display picture. &#8220;She asked me to pay \u20b96,000 for a food processor for her mother in Surat, saying her UPI wasn&#8217;t working. She was looking for processors two days before, so I paid.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Later, at home, she learnt the truth. &#8220;I realised I was scammed.&#8221; Divya&#8217;s case highlights a surge in cyber fraud in India, where AI is fuelling more personal, targeted attacks, especially during the festive season when travel and shopping surges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divya*, a Mumbai content writer, was finishing work before her Navratri break when she got a WhatsApp text from an unknown number with her roommate&#8217;s display picture. &#8220;She asked me to pay \u20b96,000 for a food processor for her mother in Surat, saying her UPI wasn&#8217;t working. She was looking for processors two days before, so I paid.&#8221; Later, at home, she learnt the truth. &#8220;I realised I was scammed.&#8221; Divya&#8217;s case highlights a surge in cyber fraud in India, where AI is fuelling more personal, targeted attacks, especially during the festive season when travel and shopping surges.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965011","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=965011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}