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Recently, authorities in Cambodia have carried out a major operation against an online scam syndicate, underscoring the growing scale and sophistication of cross-border cybercrime in the region. According to a report by Bernama today, a total of 49 individuals were arrested during the raid, with several foreign nationals among those detained.

China recently arrested a man called Hong who generated fake news using ChatGPT. The fake news involved a train crash that killed 9 people in China and was spread across 21 different blogs on China’s Baidu with 15000 views. While we’re thinking this is more about the fake news than how it was generated, it could mark the first of many more such arrests using ChatGPT. 

Getting a PlayStation 5 (PS5) these days is like finding a needle in a haystack thanks to scalpers. However, there is one particular individual who was believed to scam more than 200 customers involving the purchase of the PS5, has been arrested by the Royal Malaysian Police force just yesterday.

Recently, officials in India have arrested 10 university students for playing the widely popular game Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile. Gujarat, a state in India enforces the ban stating that the game is heavily influential, promoting violence as well as causes students to not focus on their studies.