805 apps and 3,266 websites blocked due to national security reasons, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah updates on cyber security measures, including blocking apps, tracking cybercrime, and digital economy growth.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed a parliamentary committee on Monday (February 10, 2025) that 805 mobile applications and 3,266 website links have been blocked so far due to “national security” reasons.

The Minister stated that a total of 1.43 lakh First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered on the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) portal, and over 19 crore people have used the website (cybercrime.gov.in).

Mr. Shah said that over 6 lakh suspicious data points have been shared through a common system linking 14C, police, banks, and other law enforcement agencies and more than 19 lakh mule bank accounts have been identified preventing suspicious transactions worth ₹2,038 crore.

A total of 399 banks and financial intermediaries are linked to the platform.

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Mr. Shah was chairing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs on the topic of ‘Cyber Security and Cyber Crime’.

Addressing the meeting, Mr. Shah said that India has witnessed a ‘digital revolution’ in the last decade. There has been an expansion of digital infrastructure in India in recent years, the Minister said, which has naturally led to an increase in the number of cyber attacks. He said that when we look at cyberspace from a different perspective, it forms a complex network of ‘software,’ ‘services,’ and ‘users.’ He emphasised that until we consider controlling cyber fraud through ‘software,’ ‘services,’ and ‘users,’ it will be impossible to resolve the issues of cyberspace. He said that cybercrime transcends geographical boundaries. He stated that it is a ‘borderless’ and ‘formless’ crime, as it has no limits or fixed form.