Cyber Security

India saw 265 mn cyber attacks, rising malware threats, says report

Cyber security firm QuicHeal's enterprise arm Seqrite has detected over 265 million attacks across 8 million endpoints or installed bases of its technology in India, the company said on Thursday. The report, "State of Malware In India" compiled by Seqrite Labs, found that Maharashtra, with 36.1 million threat detections, Gujarat (24.1 million), and Delhi (15.4 million) emerged as the most affected states, with Mumbai, New Delhi, and Kolkata identified as the top targeted cities. "We operate from close to 80 lakh plus endpoints. And these 80 lakh endpoints are deployed not only across the breadth of our nation, but also across 76 other countries. Between October 2024 and September 2025, Seqrite Labs monitored more than 80 lakh endpoints and recorded 265.52 million detections," a company official said. The official said that the data on attacks is based on endpoints deployed in India. "These 265 million attacks QuickHeal and Seqrite were able to block. We were able to prevent those .

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One-fourth of Indian firms surveyed report cyber losses: PwC report

Nearly a quarter of Indian enterprises surveyed reported losses exceeding USD 1 million (about Rs 8.8 crore) from cyber breaches over the past three years, with the risk particularly high among companies earning USD 5 billion or more in annual revenue. Cyber budgets are rising, albeit at a cautious pace, with 87 per cent of organisations in India planning to increase their cybersecurity spending over the next 12 months, according to a PwC report. The PwC 2026 Global Digital Trust Insights survey, based on responses from 138 Indian business and technology executives, found that investment in AI tops budget priorities at 46 per cent, followed by cloud security at 33 per cent. ...25 per cent of businesses say their most damaging data breach in the past three years cost their organisation at least USD 1 million, with exposure highest among enterprises generating USD 5 billion or more in revenue (45 per cent). This year, 87 per cent of leaders of Indian organisations expect their cyber

DMRC marks cyber security month with global participation and events

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) organised a series of activities in October aimed at promoting cyber safety and best practices among its employees. The event saw participation from officials representing India, Canada, Spain, Portugal and Austria. Observing the Cyber Security Awareness month in October, the DMRC hosted the UITP India Urban Rail Conference 2025 under the theme "Success Stories of Global Cities", focusing on innovation, global collaboration and cybersecurity in the urban rail sector, according to a statement. Cyber Information Security Officers from public and private organisations held a roundtable meeting to exchange insights and share best practices on cybersecurity issues, it said. The awareness month featured expert sessions by Dr Gulshan Rai, former National Cyber Security Coordinator and Dr Sanjay Bahl, Director General of CERT-IN. It concluded with a lecture by Col. Nidhish Bhatnagar, former director of Rashtriya Raksha University, who spoke on the ..

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India's fintech boom faces rising cyber threats amid rapid expansion

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Britain sees 50% spike in major cyberattacks as top firms targeted

Britain's National Cyber Security Center, part of its signals intelligence agency GCHQ, said it had dealt with 429 cyber incidents in the 12 months to the end of August.

Lucknow youths' accounts linked to global cyber fraud, say police

Ajay, a 24-year-old restaurant waiter from the winding lanes of Old Lucknow, thought he had stumbled upon an easy way to make money. A friend introduced him to a crypto trader who offered Rs 20,000 if Ajay allowed the use of his bank account for a day's transaction. Tempted, he agreed. The next morning, lakhs of rupees flowed into his account before these were withdrawn under someone else's instructions, and handed over to strangers. Within weeks, police knocked on Ajay's door. The money, they told him, was part of an elaborate international cyber fraud routed through his account. Shaken, Ajay turned approver, helping investigators identify other account holders and middlemen in a growing nexus that links the narrow lanes of Chowk, Indira Nagar, and Vrindavan Yojna, Sushant Golf City to handlers operating out of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Police investigations by Crime Branch and Cyber Cell over the past three months reveal that dozens of mule accounts - bank accounts u

Project Ire: Know about Microsoft's AI agent to detect malicious software

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Max Financial's Axis Max Life reports unauthorised acces to customer data

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DRDO, IIT-Delhi demonstrate experimental progress in quantum communication

India has successfully demonstrated an experimental advancement in quantum communication domain that paves the way for real-time applications in quantum cyber security, according to the defence ministry. "The free-space quantum secure communication using quantum entanglement over a distance of more than one km was achieved via a free-space optical link established on the IIT-Delhi campus," it said in a statement on Monday. With this, India has entered a "new quantum era", officials said. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has congratulated the DRDO and IIT-Delhi for this landmark achievement, stating that India entered a new quantum era of secure communication which will be a "game-changer" in future warfare. "This entanglement-assisted quantum secure communication paves the way for real-time applications in quantum cyber security, including long-distance Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), the development of quantum networks, and the future quantum internet," the statement said. The ...

MSC Bank sets up country's first cyber security operations centre

In a move to bolster digital resilience in the cooperative banking sector, the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSC Bank) has established the country's first cyber-security operation centre (C-SOC) to provide protection against increasing cyber threats. The facility, Sahakar Suraksha, has been set up in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, at a cost of Rs 50 crore, a senior official said. In an interview with PTI, MSC Bank Chairman Vidyadhar Anaskar said the bank's decision to launch the C-SOC stemmed from a pressing need to protect cooperative banks and their customers from cyber fraud. "There have been more than 10 lakh cyber attacks on cooperative banks in recent years, causing financial losses running into crores. One particular fraud alone caused a loss of around Rs 50 crore," he said. Anaskar said most cooperative and rural banks are ill-equipped to build robust cyber defence infrastructure. "They neither have the technical manpower nor the funds. That is why we have developed a shared ..

CERT-In issues high-risk security warning for Google Chrome, Android users

CERT-In has flagged critical vulnerabilities affecting Google Chrome on desktop and Android 13-15, urging users to update immediately to avoid potential remote attacks and data breaches

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The government has launched the e-Zero FIR system to fast-track high-value cybercrime investigations. Starting in Delhi, it auto-registers FIRs for frauds above ₹10 lakh.