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India has instructed Google to remove hundreds of Firebase accounts after discovering criminals systematically exploiting the platform to impersonate major banks and perpetrate large-scale fraud schemes targeting mobile users.
Sri Lanka has arrested 1,093 foreign nationals across 27 operations targeting cybercrime and financial fraud in 2026, nearly doubling arrests from 2024 as authorities combat organised online scam networks.
Malaysia has removed nearly 100,000 scam-related content items from social media platforms in the first seven months of 2026, already exceeding the entire previous year's total, Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching announced.