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MeitY releases 2ⁿᵈ edition of the Digital Threat Report 2025-26 for India's BFSI Sector in ...
India's Ministry of Electronics & IT released the second Digital Threat Report for BFSI, identifying AI asymmetry and accelerated threat-to-exploitation timelines as defining risks; six of seven prior-year predictions have already materialised, with attacks now indistinguishable from legitimate transactions until damage occurs.
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The Wire takeaway
If you sell security or compliance to Indian banks, your entire value story just shifted: attacks now look like normal transactions, so detection-only defences fail, and regulators now expect continuous risk assessment, not periodic audits. Your product either maps to this new model or it's obsolete.
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Topics: Fintech · ai-asymmetry · credential-theft · bfsi-cyber-threats · india-fintech · threat-acceleration · supply-chain-risk