Scams are new types of crime messages in the digital age. Its main task is to trap people in cheating by using technology. Scams are now the new threat of dangerous and alarming incidents coming to light. Losing not only money but also personal documents. Awareness is where the main keeper is. Digital day and nights have hundreds of links circulating on devices, apps or links. In many cases fake links are encountered. Many people become victims either by mistake or by immediate mistake. We have to face social, human and financial disasters. Protection can be missed without extra precautions. Scams are new types of crime messages in the digital age. Its main task is to trap people in cheating by using technology. Scams are now the new threat of dangerous and alarming incidents coming to light. Losing not only money but also personal documents. Awareness is where the main keeper is. Digital scams are spreading around day by day. The most popular apps of the time are WhatsApp and Telegram. Fraud traps are now commonplace through both apps. There have been many repetitions of such incidents in the past. Cyber research says that cybercriminals have done multidimensional fraud by sending messages through WhatsApp. According to the report, digital scams are particularly persistent processes. Scamsters are constantly setting new traps, which is a cause for concern in the real sense. At the end of the year, WhatsApp users are advised to be careful. It is said that WhatsApp and Telegram are the biggest medium of digital scams. Cyber experts have already suggested the formation of a special security department at the headquarters of the two apps. The incidence of cyber-crime in 2024 has surpassed any previous time. Such attacks around the world are re-thinking security experts. Suddenly a new documentary came out. According to the published report, India is now at the top of the world in terms of mobile malware attack statistics. Canada and the United States are behind. A few days ago, India was at the third position. In terms of attack, it is the very first place from there. Research firm Zscaler's ThreatLabs Mobile, IoT & OT report says at least 2 billion risky mobile transactions and cyber threat data sets have been examined. Such analysis was conducted for the period from June 2023 to May 2024. Ever since the disclosure of the information, cyber experts have been suffering from anxiety and fear. According to the report sources, India is now at the top in terms of mobile malware attacks across the world. The country accounts for 28 percent of the world's total malware attacks. The second position is the United States (27.3 percent). On the other hand, Canada is in the third position with 15.9 percent attacks. The country has become a prime target for cyber-crime due to its large population and high volume of digital transactions. Trojans account for at least half of the persistent attacks targeting mobile devices worldwide. This is malware that fools the mobile user into automatically downloading suspicious apps to the phone. As a result, digital transactions are facing the greatest danger. Statistics show that banking malware attacks have increased by 29 percent worldwide. In contrast, mobile spyware attacks increased by 112 percent. Cyber research institutes say malware attacks targeting the digital financial sector are adept at fooling several steps of multifactor authentication. As a result, it becomes easy for fraudsters to create fake login pages or fake social media sites of an organization to carry out fraud operations. It has been reported that the number of malware attacks targeting the registered phones of bank customers around the world is increasing. Attempts to steal customer information through fake apps are common. Cyber-attacks on the postal department are also incessant. There have been incidents of credit card information being stolen by sending an SMS to the customer informing them of a problem with the address of the parcel. The number of cyber fraud cycles and attacks in the digital financial sector is now doubling worldwide. It has indeed become a cause of apprehension and anxiety for all. Especially in the year-end, the banking and financial sectors are the most affected by cyber-attacks. Cyber security experts have advised to be extra cautious in digital transactions during the said period.

English abstract translation of the daily Somokal news report