National Cyber Crime portal
- July 9, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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National Cyber Crime portal
Subject: Security Issues
Section: Cyber Security
Context: Cloned websites, malicious links being used to lure unsuspecting victims.
Content:
- Many job-seekers in the city get duped by fake job rackets. Nearly 30% of all the complaints have been lodged with the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal pertain to employment-related frauds.
National Cyber Crime Portal
- It is an initiative of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India under National Mission for the safety of women to facilitate victims/complainants to report cybercrime complaints online.
- This portal caters to complaints pertaining to cyber-crimes only with special focus on cyber-crimes against women and children.
- It caters all types of cyber-crime complaints including complaints pertaining to online Child Pornography (CP), Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) or sexually explicit content such as Rape/Gang Rape (CP/RGR) content and other cyber-crimes such as mobile crimes, online and social media crimes, online financial frauds, ransomware, hacking, cryptocurrency crimes and online cyber trafficking.
- The portal also provides an option of reporting an anonymous complaint for reporting online Child Pornography (CP) or sexually explicit content such as Rape/Gang Rape (RGR) content.
- Complaints reported on this portal are dealt by law enforcement agencies/ police based of respective States/ UTs on the information available in the complaints.