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India covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to India, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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Chinese and Indian spies converged on the same Balochistan police force, SentinelLabs found
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026
Also: Binance Eyes More Asia Licenses, India Pushes Fresh Crypto CurbsThis week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission eyes July for a crypto rule proposal, Binance anticipates more Asian business, Malaysia seized 75,000 crypto mining rigs, India's central bank shooed away banks from crypto, and Interpol helped sweep crypto launderers.
A suspected China-nexus threat activity cluster has been observed targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams to deliver a remote access trojan designed to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials
One critical vulnerability, among many discovered by a researcher, could have allowed anyone to walk in and take over a national government portal.
The China-aligned espionage group Mustang Panda is running two campaigns against the Indian government and hydropower targets, deploying new malware and turning a legitimate cloud service into its command channel
Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software
India's government has told the Delhi High Court that Telegram was warned about two weeks before it was blocked, and that the platform admitted it could not proactively detect the channels selling leaked exam papers. Telegram says it cooperated and the ban is unlawful. [...]
India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]
TCS to Build and Deploy Custom AI Models Using Mistral ForgeTata Consultancy Services struck a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, making it the first global systems integrator to deliver Mistral Forge to enterprise clients, the Indian and French companies announced this week. The deal hands TCS access to Paris-based Mistral's frontier models.
Nodal Agency Urges Fix Within 12 Hours for Internet-Facing FlawsHackers move quickly, especially with artificial intelligence there to help them. Cyber defenders should move equally as fast, said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team in guidance advising that organizations mitigate serious new flaws within 12 hours.
CERT-In says internet-facing or critical systems should be patched, mitigated, or cut off within half a day where feasible
CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
A suspected China-linked threat actor targeted the Indian branch of a global manufacturer leveraging an open source offensive toolkit
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree.…
More than 1,600 socially engineered messages from the China-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group target various sectors to deliver the previously undocumented ABCDoor backdoor, ValleyRAT, and other malware.