Police picked up 74 Vietnamese at a Uttarananda Mawatha housing complex on Wednesday evening, hours after 60 foreigners were detained at a nearby building.
Prof. Anuradhi Hapuarachchi tells ITV the USD 2.5m theft could enable manipulation of fiscal policy and threatens public confidence in digital payments.
Wednesday afternoon raid widens the cybercrime crackdown into central Colombo days after 157 suspects were detained in Rajagiriya and Talangama.
North Western Province cyber unit arrested a 62-year-old woman over a video-call blackmail scam after a victim was forced to transfer Rs. 100,000.
Women and Child Affairs Minister says a PM-led committee has recommended barring children under 5 from screens and under 12 from social media.
Organised cybercrime syndicates from Myanmar and Dubai may be shifting to Sri Lanka; 157 people of nine nationalities arrested in three days, 37 deported.
Sri Lanka CERT urges users to ignore unknown WhatsApp video calls after a wave of recorded explicit-call blackmail demands money via foreign bank transfers.
Engineer Vasantha Saparamadu says any confirmation code can pull tourist passport data from the ETA visa page; flagged with SLCERT in October, still unfixed.
Presidential Secretariat circular sets up the 400-member Public-Impact Champions Network across 95 ministries, SOEs and PCs to drive digitalisation.
Vengadasalam Balagobi says ISO 42001 offers a practical framework as boardrooms grapple with bias, privacy and regulatory compliance risks from generative AI.
Cultus and AWS roll out free cloud, AI and Industry 4.0 courses for Sri Lankan students and unemployed youth, targeting the country's job-readiness gap.
Jana Aragalaya Movement alleges decision-making over Sri Lanka's biometric ID is being ceded to India, with a blacklisted firm now on the bidder list.
Citizens Development Business Finance has rolled out a merchant device that gives instant voice confirmation of QR transactions, with card support to follow.
Customs Department rolls out Cargo Flow, a remittances portal and an e-Vessel Service Charges system as part of its modernisation push.
A school group photo of 16 female teachers was manipulated and circulated on WhatsApp; police found the doctored images on four students' phones.
HelaPay has surpassed Rs. 5 billion in cumulative transactions through the Helakuru SuperApp — fivefold growth from the Rs. 1bn mark reached in two years.
Cabinet has cleared a bill to establish a National Cyber Security Regulatory Authority, with the draft expected to reach Parliament in two to three months.
Telecom regulator will stand up its own coverage monitoring system this year and stop relying on operator-supplied data, DG Bandula Herath says.
EQT-backed IT services firm Virtusa, founded in Sri Lanka in 1996, plans an Indian IPO of at least $1 billion following a roadshow in the second half of 2026.
Digital Economy and Public Administration ministries issue interim guidelines directing state institutions to adopt IT tools and remote service delivery.
Digital Trust Alliance and professional bodies wrote to President AKD urging structured cybersecurity governance after the USD 2.5M Treasury heist.
Jury selection has begun in Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of betraying the AI lab's original nonprofit mission.
Ten Sri Lankan ICT companies generated over USD 2 million in business prospects and 300+ leads at Japan IT Week Spring 2026 in Tokyo, the EDB said.
Department of Registration of Persons warns of a fake website and scam numbers harvesting personal data under the guise of Digital ID registration.