Jharkhand Police arrest cyber criminals who created, sold malicious apps guised as KYC update mechanism

Jharkhand Police arrest cyber criminals who created, sold malicious apps guised as KYC update mechanism



The Jharkhand Police arrested six people for creating and selling malicious applications that were used by cyber criminals to cheat around 2,800 people across the country of at least ₹11 crore. The main culprit, Mahboob Alam, taught himself coding and was known as “DK Boss” among cybercriminals. The accused sold each malicious app for ₹25,000-30,000 and had sold 1,000 such apps in the past year. They would call people in the name of KYC update or government schemes, send the apps to the victim’s phone, hack into their phones, and steal bank account details to conduct unauthorized transactions. Police recovered various items from the accused, including mobile phones, SIM cards, ATM cards, cash, a laptop, cars, a DSLR camera, and a drone.





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