BEIJING (Xinhua): China launched a crackdown on cybercrime as it has seen a rapid spread of online fraud, rumourmongering and infringements of individual privacy, among other offences.
Chinese police have captured 6,329 suspects involved in Internet scams related to the Covid-19 epidemic, 3,870 engaged in manufacturing or selling fake or substandard face masks and protective garments and 496 suspected of illegally selling precious wild animals and their byproducts amid the campaign initiated this year, said the Ministry of Public Security.