New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) With 265.52 million detections across over 8 million endpoints, credential theft and identity compromise has emerged as a primary entry point for large‑scale cyberattacks against Indian IT firms, a report said on Monday. The report from Seqrite said the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited said the threat ecosystem is characterised by continuous, automated attack activity, as India’s IT sector has become a high-value target for credential theft a…
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New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) India’s nodal cybersecurity agency, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), has issued a high-severity alert warning that rapid advances in frontier artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping the cyber threat landscape, raising fresh concerns across the technology ecosystem.In an advisory titled “Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks”, CERT-In said the growing sophistication of next-generation AI systems is enabling attackers to…
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) Calling for integrity-driven growth in India’s capital markets, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the country’s financial future depends on building stronger, more transparent markets rather than simply scaling them up.Speaking at SEBI’s 38th foundational day event here, FM Sitharaman stressed quality over sheer expansion.“Above all, we want better markets, not merely bigger markets. Size without integrity is fragility. Volume without investor protecti…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Around 82 per cent of Indian enterprises expect AI agents to outpace their organisation’s security guardrails within the next year, and only 26 per cent report full visibility into agents operating in their environments, a report said on Tuesday.The report from security and AI operations company Rubrik said the lack of visibility leaves organisations unable to secure identities that are already making decisions, taking actions, and interacting with critical data.Non-…
Taipei, April 9 (IANS) Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Tsai Ming-yen has described China’s attempts to infiltrate Taiwan as ‘systematic, planned and targeted’, with strategy shifting from recruiting mid-level military officers to rank-and-file enlisted personnel, local media reported on Thursday. In his remarks at a meeting of the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee on Wednesday, Tsai said that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using nationa…
Washington, April 4 (IANS) Taiwan faces a stark challenge in preserving its democratic way of life amid persistent threats from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The answer lies in “self-deterrence” – developing the capacity to raise costs on aggression to make any attempt at subjugation prohibitively expensive for Beijing, a report mentioned. According to an article published in the US-based ‘Journal of Democracy’, this is not about militarism or provocation but survival and ensuring that Ta…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The healthcare sector received the highest number of cybersecurity attacks, with education and manufacturing sectors together accounting for nearly 47 per cent of all detections in India between October 2024 and September 2025, a report said on Monday.The report from Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of cybersecurity solutions provider Quick Heal Technologies Ltd., said that healthcare and pharmaceuticals alone recorded 3.79 million detections, a 14.24 per cent shar…
Taipei, Jan 7 (IANS) Taiwan’s National Security Bureau has accused Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of conducting military drills near the self-ruled island along with cyberattacks, sharing over 19,000 “controversial” messages and carrying out millions of hacking intrusions, local media reported on Wednesday. In a report presented to the Legislative Yuan, the agency stated that online activity involved 799 abnormal accounts and focused on increasing skepticism regarding the US, Taiwan’s President W…