Hyderabad City: The Hyderabad City Police Commissioner Mr. CV Anand inaugurated the 5 day Dark Web Investigators Workshop at TSPA today. This course is being attended by police officers from all over the country and Central and State Government agencies .With the steep rise in Cybercrimes and the Cyber perpetrators resorting to sophisticated cyber-attacks, through Deep and Dark web, hacking, crypto currencies, the cyber world has turned out to be a tough digital terrain for the law enforcement agencies to investigate and apprehend the perpetrators as most of the crimes were being committed from remote countries.
To deal with this alarming trend, the Telangana Intelligence Department in association with Convergence Innovation Labs which collaborated with Mr. Mark Bentley, an ex-cop in UK police and an expert trainer with 40 years’ experience, to synergies the capacity building program of the police personnel in Telangana.
Addressing the trainees, CP Mr. Anand said that state government and Telangana police are spearheading the digital initiatives in policing and has an impressive record in training thousands of police officers. He gave examples of the 15 types of Cyber frauds, especially the Loan Apps which have led to the suicide by three people in the last 10 days and how it’s become very difficult to investigate and catch the perpetrators.
“The recent detection of the Mahesh Bank hacking case and the Xsilica e-payment gateway hacking case show that it is possible to investigate these cases and requires special expertise and resources to do so”. ”Even Narcotic Drugs are being trafficked using the Dark Web as the Telangana cracks down “he said.
“Simulating real world examples and incidents, materials, open source intelligence tools(OSINT) and exercises, the 5 day workshop and master class equips cyber investigator with the latest cutting-edge tools and investigation methodology. “ said CV Mr. Anand.
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