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Police uncover new digital scam targeting bank accounts
The police managed to uncover information regarding a new digital racket used to rob bank accounts. If anyone falls victim to such a fraud, the police advise immediately suspending bank accounts and notifying the nearest police station or the Computer Crime Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Department.In this scheme, downloading and opening a suspicious file named ".apk" received from an unknown number or even under a friend's name results in hackers gaining control of the mobile phone. This allows sensitive information like SMS messages and OTP codes to be exposed to hackers, providing them the opportunity to rob money from bank accounts.These apk files, which appear as wedding invitations, electricity bills, or lucky draws on social media, install as a mobile app on the smartphone the moment they are clicked under the impression of being an image or a PDF. This provides them the opportunity to read received SMS messages, and confidential OTP codes related to bank accounts may unknowingly fall into the hands of hackers.Due to this, the police notify that such suspicious apk files received from an unknown number or even under a friend's name should never be downloaded or opened. The instructions further mention that only the Google Play Store or Apple App Store should always be used when obtaining mobile apps for a phone, and it is necessary to keep "Install Unknown Apps" disabled within the mobile phone settings.
Soot smears on Govt collar over coal scam: Mystery of missing ...
Columns View(s): It has certainly not been an auspicious start to the Sinhala and Hindu New Year for the JVP government. Suddenly they have become like cats on a hot tin roof, forced to confront a plethora of financial issues which cast questions on their competence and, apart from throwing aspersions on their much-hailed integrity, shed doubts on their responsibility to exercise due diligence as the elected and answerable custodians of the public coffers. Consider first: Last week’s resignation of Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody over an alleged coal fraud caused the JVP’s hymen of chastity to be rent asunder in spite of 153 members of its parliamentary cadre solemnly vouching in the House only two weeks ago that it remained strongly intact, sans any sign of a single trespass. Furthermore, the allegation also shattered their scrupulously groomed ‘reformed’ image as presently being a party – though born out of terrorism’s dastardliness – of reborn men and women, steeped in integrity and grounded in honesty, against whom not a single stone of corruption had been cast nor even a rumour of potential corruptibility had ever been whispered. With such self-proclaimed credentials repeated over and over again to become a mantra that kept the nation rapt in a mystic trance, they had continuously held themselves up as immaculate as the Vestal Virgins had been to tend the sacred hearth fire of ancient Rome. On this singular claim alone – though untested – to possess financial integrity, they gained the people’s confidence to occupy the sovereign seat of governance. SURIYAPPERUMA: Missing millions were under his watch But will the same January ill wind that blew the lid off the coal scam now blow the JVP off their high moral ground? The existence of a massive coal scam was first revealed by SLPP MP D.V. Chanaka in Parliament over three months ago. In the second week of January this year, he told a startled House: n The government has ordered a series of inferior coal shipments which would require Norochcholai Coal Power Plant to burn 13 more metric tonnes of coal per hour. n Furthermore, suspicion surrounded the whole tender procedure. The year’s coal stock is generally ordered in April. Last year, however, the annual coal tender was delayed from April to September 2025, and a new six-month contract was awarded to a company through a “highly unusual” tender process. n Chanaka also claimed in Parliament that due to the need to use extra coal and potential reliance on di...
Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole ...
The government of Sri Lanka has lost more than $3 million in two recent, separate cybersecurity incidents as the country continues to recover from its 2022 debt crisis.
Sri Lanka Central Bank Tricked Into Paying $2.5M to Cyber Criminals
Hackers breached a government email system and tricked officials into diverting a debt repayment intended for Australia, igniting a political firestorm in Colombo.
