One detained for cyber crimes in Tbilisi
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Police have detained a Georgian citizen for cyber crimes in Tbilisi, Interior Ministry reported yesterday.
The ministry said the individual, identified only as A.B. and born in 2000, fraudulently accessed the Facebook accounts of 25 people between December 2019 and May 2020.
The individual not only used the names of those 25 persons to write to their friends, asking to transfer money to his bank account, but also deceived them into giving him their bank account information and transferred their money on his account.
The crime is punishable from four to seven years in prison.
Police have detained four persons for cyber crime in Tbilisi and Batumi, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Detainees illegally used personal information of 13 people to illegally access their internet bank and online gambling accounts and stole 42,000 GEL ($14,756/€13,014) in total.
Georgia has been ranked ninth in Europe in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2018, which is a composite index produced, analysed and published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to measure the commitment of its 194 member states to cybersecurity in order to raise cybersecurity awareness.
A global organized cybercrime network that used malware GozNym to infect computers and steal 100 million USD from more than 41,000 institutions has been taken down - Georgia helped in the process.
The Division for the Fight Against Cybercrime has detained two individuals for cybercrime in Georgia’s western Ozurgeti municipality, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The individuals identified as G.Gh., I.D. and V.M. published photos of vehicles on Myauto.ge web portal with a price lower than the market cost and fraudulently forced the buyers to transfer part of money to their accounts.
Three individuals have been detained for illegal access to computer systems by a group and stealing 72,500 GEL (22,000 USD). The three individuals were assisted by a 17-year-old.
Georgian police have detained one individual for murder in Zugdidi municipality in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo. The crime is punishable by seven to 15 years in prison.
Georgian police have detained an Indian citizen for illegally accessing computer systems, extraction and misuse of computer data and theft. The crime is punishable by three to five years in prison.
The Georgian parliament is hearing a bill by the Ministry of Internal Affairs designed to include stricter criminal punishment for cyber crimes including hacking for financial gain and creation of fake data.