Google to increase the detection of fraud related to AI and safety operations in India

Google has presented its security card in India, which will expand its resolution development in the field of fraud detecting and combating fraud throughout the country, the company's largest market outside the United States.

Digital fraud in India is growing. Fraud related to the immediate payment of the Government of India UPI It grew by 85% year on year Last year, to almost 11 billion Indian rupees ($ 127 million), in accordance with government data. India also saw several cases of fraud related to digital arrest, in which fraudsters become officials to force money through video connections and predatory loan applications.

Thanks to the safety charter, Google aims to solve some of these areas. The company also launched Security Engineering Center In India, the fourth center of Dublin, Munich and Malaga.

The Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) announced at the Google for India summit (GSEC) will allow Google to cooperate with the local community, including the government, the academic community and students, as well as small and medium -sized enterprises to create solutions to solve cyber security, privacy, safety and problems with AI, said Google VP of Security Engineering Herather Adkins in an interview with TechCrunch.

Google establishes cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior of the Indian Center for Cybercrime Coordination (I4C) in order to increase awareness of cybercrime, said the company in the blog post. This is based on the company's existing works, including launching the online fraud identification program, Digikavachwhich debuted in 2023 to limit the harmful effects of malicious financial applications and predatory loan applications.

Thanks to GSEC in India, Google will focus on three key areas, Adkins said TechCrunch: the phenomenon of online fraud and fraud and how people are safe online; Cyber ​​security of enterprises, government and critical infrastructure; and building responsible artificial intelligence.

“These three areas will become part of our security card in India and in the coming years … We want to use the fact that we have engineering capabilities here to solve what is happening in India, near the place where users are,” said Adkins.

All over the world, Google uses artificial intelligence to combat online fraud and delete millions of ads and Ads Ad. The company aims to implement AI in India to combat digital fraud.

Google messages, which are initially installed on many Android devices, use the detection of fraud powered by AI, which helped protect users from over 500 million suspicious messages per month. Similarly, Google piloted last year in India, India, which, he claims, blocked almost 60 million attempts to install high -risk applications, which resulted in stopping over 220,000 unique applications for over 13 million devices. Google Pay, which is one of the best -based payment application in the country, also showed 41 million warnings against transactions suspected of potential fraud.

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Adkins, the founder of the Google Security Team, who has been part of the Internet company for over 23 years, discussed several other topics during an interview with TechCrunch:

Adkins said that one thing is the use and improper use of artificial intelligence by malicious actors.

“Of course, we follow AI very carefully, and so far we have seen mainly large language models, such as Gemini used as performance improvements. For example, that phishing frauds are slightly more effective – especially if the actor and goal have different languages ​​- they can benefit from the benefits of translation to make fraud more reliable with depth, images, films, etc.” Adkina said.

Adkins said Google is conducting extensive tests of his AI models to make sure they understand what they shouldn't do.

“This is important for generated content that can be harmful, but also actions that it can take,” said Akins.

Google is working on the frames, including Safe AI frameworkto limit the abuse of twins models. However, in order to protect the generative artificial intelligence against improper use and use of hackers in the future, the company sees the need to build a frame to build safety in the field of communicating many agents.

“Industry moves very, very quickly (through) issuing protocols. It is almost like the early days of the Internet, in which everyone spends the code in real time, and we think about security after the fact,” said Adkins.

Google does not want to introduce only its own framework to limit the scope of generative artificial intelligence, because hackers are used by hackers. Instead, Adkins said that the company cooperates with the research community and programmers.

“One of the things you don't want to do is too much limitation in the early days of research,” said Adkins.

On supervision sellers

In addition to the potential of the generative use by hackers by hackers, ADKINS perceives commercial supervision suppliers as a serious threat. They may include spy software manufacturers, including the NSO group, which is infamous due to their pegasus spy software or other small companies selling supervision tools.

“These are developed companies all over the world, develop, create and sell a hacking platform,” said Adkins. “You can pay USD 20, you can pay USD 200,000, depending on the sophistication of the platform, and this allows you to scale the attack of people without any specialist knowledge.”

Some of these suppliers also sell their tools to a spy on people in markets, including India. However, in addition to attacking supervision tools, the country has its unique challenges partly due to its size. The country sees not only deep cabinets for hunting fraud and cloning voices, but also cases Digital arrestswhich ADKINS emphasize ordinary fraud adapted to the digital world.

“You can see how quickly the actors threatened … for this reason I love to learn cybercrime in this region. It is often a tip of what we will see at some point all over the world,” said Adkins.

In the case of multifactorial authentication

Google has long encouraged users to use safer authentication methods outside the password to protect their online presence. In the past, the company included multi -component authentication (MFA) for all user accounts, and also promotes hardware security keys, which ADKINS mentioned, pointing to its employees actively using its laptops. FashionSss is also becoming a popular technological term with various meanings.

Nevertheless, the expectation that people will abandon slogans on the market like India is difficult due to extensive demographic data and a diverse economic landscape.

“We have long known that the slogans were not safe. This concept of multi -component authentication was a step forward,” ADKINS said, adding that the Indians probably favor SMS -based authentication compared to other MFA options.