Kho said the general public is not typically aware what cybercrime constitutes and that it can be hard to provide a proper explanation due to the complexity of issues involved.
By Sulok Tawie
Thursday, 09 Jun 2022 2:55 PM MYT
KUCHING, June 9 — Malaysia’s existing laws on cybercrimes need to be updated for wider protection against scammers, politician Kho Teck Wan said today.
The head of the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) women’s wing said the current relevant laws do not empower the police to help fraud victims recover their lost money.
“According to recent press reports, the current laws do not empower the police to recover the money of the victims,” the information security architect for Sarawak Energy Berhad said in a statement.
She said there have been 3,057 cybercrimes reported to Cybersecurity Malaysia as of May, adding that 2,147 are classified as fraud cases.
She said the general public is not typically aware what cybercrime constitutes and that it can be hard to provide a proper explanation due to the complexity of issues involved.
She said the regulatory bodies including the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), banks, cybersecurity experts, and MPs should work together to stop or reduce the frequency of financial crimes and improve the laws to help Malaysians protect their savings.
Elaborating, she said banks are accountable to safeguard their customers’ savings, and should take the first step to perform an internal…
