{"id":19333,"date":"2022-06-09T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=19333"},"modified":"2022-06-09T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:56:08","slug":"iit-kanpur-develops-tool-to-help-investigate-cryptocurrency-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=19333","title":{"rendered":"IIT Kanpur develops tool to help investigate cryptocurrency fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), will provide an indigenously designed tool to help the Uttar Pradesh police in detection and cracking of cases of fraud through cryptocurrency transactions.<br \/>\n<br class=\"article_breaks\" data-name=\"keyword\" data-nm1=\"keyword\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Professor Sandeep Shukla from IIT-Kanpur, said that the tool developed by IIT, known as HOP, can analyse cryptocurrency transactions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tool is cheaper than any foreign equipment. By September, our tool will be ready to serve the UP police and help in investigations in cases of cryptocurrency fraud,&#8221; said Shukla.\n<\/p>\n<p>ADG, Cybercrime, Subhash Chandra, emphasised on the need for cybercrime awareness programmes and capacity-building for police departments to prepare to counter the menace.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have taken action against 37,000 accounts, banks and cards, and also recovered Rs 9.5 crore in a year,&#8221; said Chandra.\n<\/p>\n<p>SP, Cybercrime, Triveni Singh said that the specific programme is an initiative of MHA and Uttar Pradesh Police and the first such event to spread cyber safety awareness and capacity-building for police departments.<\/p>\n<p>He said that basic skills and methodologies are required for investigation of VOIP-based calls that have become prevalent in extortion cases.<br \/>\n<br \/><strong>SEE ALSO:<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/tech\/mobile\/news\/nothing-phone-1-to-launch-in-india-on-july-12\/articleshow\/92082734.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Nothing phone (1) to launch in India on July 12 \u2013 here\u2019s everything you need to know about the smartphone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/cryptocurrency\/news\/around-90-million-users-flocked-to-crypto-bandwagon-in-march-2022-report\/articleshow\/92081565.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Around 90 million users flocked to crypto bandwagon in March 2022: Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/cryptocurrency\/news\/6-of-cryptos-loudest-opponents-that-you-should-know-about-from-dogecoins-co-creator-to-a-star-of-the-oc\/articleshow\/92091296.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">6 of crypto&#8217;s loudest opponents that you should know about, from Dogecoin&#8217;s co-creator to a star of &#8216;The OC&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/cryptocurrency\/news\/iit-kanpur-develops-tool-to-help-investigate-cryptocurrency-fraud\/articleshow\/92095405.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), will provide an indigenously designed tool to help the Uttar Pradesh police in detection and cracking of cases of fraud through cryptocurrency transactions. Professor Sandeep Shukla from IIT-Kanpur, said that the tool developed by IIT, known as HOP, can analyse cryptocurrency transactions. &#8220;The tool is cheaper than any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[46],"tags":[52,5278,3246,8849,8851,8850,2332],"class_list":["post-19333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dogecoin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-develops","tag-fraud","tag-iit","tag-investigate","tag-kanpur","tag-tool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/iit-kanpur-develops-tool-to-help-investigate-cryptocurrency-fraud.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19335,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19333\/revisions\/19335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}