India, Oct. 2 -- The city witnessed a 36% rise in cyber crimes cases, rising from 357 cases in 2022 to 487 cases in 2023, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.

According to the report, Bengaluru recorded the highest with 17,631 cyber crime-related cases followed by Hyderabad with 4,855 cases and Mumbai with 4,131 cases.

As per the report, the most common motives of cybercriminals are fraud and sexual exploitation, extortion, and emotional motives. The majority of these cases were filed under the category of cheating, impersonation, online banking fraud, computer-related offences, identity theft, and the transmission of obscene/sexually explicit content in electronic form.

The report indicates a decrease of 38% i...