9/06/2017
PUNE: Cyber
crime is on the rise in Pune, and in most of the cases the victims have fallen
prey to the ‘man in the middle’.
Giving details of the such cyber crimes, Sudhir Hiremath, the
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cyber Cell said – “A person sitting in one
corner of the world hacks into a person’s computer and gains information about
a possible or scheduled business transaction. The hacker then pretends to be a
representative of the receiving end of monetary transaction and siphons money
off while the involved parties remain oblivious of the fraud.”
The worrying trend in the city of Pune is a threat to not only
to the financial security but also privacy of the victim. A few cases of cyber
crime involving the practice of man-in-the-middle were detected in Kothrud area
of the Pune city, added Sudhir Hiremath. However, according to Senior Police
Inspector Radhika Phadke as the third person is generally in a different
country, a case cannot be built due to lack of jurisdiction.
In what comes as an alarming fact, the number of cybercrimes
involving man-in-the-middle attack in Mumbai cases rose by 37 per cent as the
number of cases reached 26 in 2016 from 19 cases in 2015, according to studies.
While in 2016, victims lost as much as Rs. 14.54
crore, the amount stood at Rs. 4.33 crore in 2015, according to local cyber
crime police unit in Mumbai.
Cyber crimes involving man-in-the-middle attack involves
hacking an official email account of a company and finding out about its
upcoming transactions with other companies.
The fraudster under a typical man-in-the-middle attack acts as
an intermediary and intercepts and alters the user's computer details and later
uses the information for fraudulent purpose.
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