Shafaqna English– In a decisive regulatory move, India has ordered the tech giant Google to deactivate a significant volume—numbering in the hundreds—of accounts operating through Firebase, its application-building toolkit.
The directive, corroborated by both government notices and a confidential source, stems from an observed modus operandi in which cybercriminals leverage the service’s capabilities to fabricate convincing replicas of major banks’ online interfaces, thereby deceiving unsuspecting citizens into surrendering sensitive financial information.
Currently, online fraud constitutes one of the most acute and complex threats to public safety and financial security within India’s jurisdiction. Government-compiled data reveals that alleged cybercrimes cost the Indian public nearly 2.4 billion dollars in 2025, highlighting the immense scale of the problem.
In response, the conventional enforcement tactic has, for a prolonged period, centered on a relatively straightforward administrative remedy: compelling internet service providers and platforms to remove identified scam websites from the public domain.
Source: Reuters