Cyber Threat

Rising ransomware attacks and data breaches have pushed up cyber insurance claims in the banking sector, but increased reinsurance capacity continues to keep premium rates soft.

CERT-In said the vulnerabilities could also allow attackers to bypass security restrictions and compromise the targeted systems

Among the major incidents, digital scans of 153 million US driver's licences were reportedly leaked, with the records allegedly being offered for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum on the dark web

Anthropic says China's GLM-5.3 can find vulnerabilities and build end-to-end exploits, while its open weights make safeguards easier to modify, raising concerns over access to cyber capabilities

Frontier AI models are rapidly improving vulnerability detection but also giving threat actors greater scale, making contextual intelligence and faster action critical, warns Trellix's Ganesh Iyer

Cheap open-source AI models could widen the cyberattack threat as adversaries gain access to powerful tools without the cost of frontier models

Cyber attackers are increasingly stealing AI access credentials and reselling compute through gray-market networks, raising financial and supply-chain risks for companies

In India, we may need to implement a cash-for-clunkers programme to encourage our state-level infrastructure providers to upgrade to the latest software

Six of the seven cyber predictions made last year have come true, showing how quickly cyber threats are evolving and why India's BFSI sector must strengthen its defences

The rapid transformation of banking and financial services is creating a fundamentally new cyber threat landscape, according to a report that argues traditional security models are no longer sufficient to serve today's interconnected ecosystems. The Digital Threat Report 2025-26, released on Monday, notes that conventional cybersecurity architectures were designed around centralised systems where trust boundaries were defined. Today's financial ecosystem, however, is built around interconnected platforms, embedded finance, AI-driven decision-making and real-time payments, dramatically expanding the attack surface, says the new report by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the Computer Security Incident Response Team in Finance (CSIRT-Fin) and SISA. "Modern financial attacks are moving from direct compromise to trust-chain manipulation across biometric onboarding, partner apps, AI decisioning, real-time ..

Viral videos showing users remotely stopping e-rickshaws have raised concerns over the security of Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems used in some electric vehicles

Education institutions, including schools, collect student data through digital learning platforms, apps and online services. Therefore, protecting student privacy is becoming a shared responsibility

As enterprises adopt AI at scale, cybersecurity spending is shifting from compliance and perimeter defence to identity protection, AI governance, cloud security, and continuous threat monitoring

Palo Alto Networks warns that AI agents are creating new cyber risks, making governance, real-time controls and AI-driven security critical for enterprises

Central agencies like I4C and Cert-In, as well as some IT firms, to get limited access for AI model testing and deployment

The country's ‌third largest state-run lender by market capitalisation has earmarked about 20 per cent of its technology budget for cybersecurity, or roughly ₹700 crore to ₹800 crore

The AI model's powerful capabilities force global leaders to overhaul cybersecurity frameworks against autonomous exploitation risks

Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday. Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said. Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added. Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said. Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from h

The data has reportedly been stolen from the National Supercomputing Centre in Tianjin (NSCC), a major computing hub that supports more than 6,000 users

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear next week a suo motu case concerning victims of digital arrest. Digital arrest is a growing form of cybercrime in which fraudsters pose as law enforcement officers, court officials or personnel from government agencies to intimidate victims through audio and video calls. They hold the victims hostage and put pressure on them to pay money. On February 9, the top court described the siphoning of more than Rs 54,000 crore by digital frauds as absolute "robbery or dacoity" and asked the Centre to draft a standard operating procedure (SoP) in consultation with stakeholders like the RBI, banks and the Department of Telecommunications to deal with such cases. On Monday, Attorney General R Venkataramani mentioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi. The top law officer said he would place a status report in the matter during the day. Contending that things are moving, he urged the bench to take up