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AI asymmetry a cyber risk for BSFI: MeitY's Digital Threat Report
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Fusion42 · 16 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
India's CERT-In Digital Threat Report flags AI asymmetry as critical risk to BFSI, citing 2.9 million cyber attacks on Indian financial institutions in 2025 and two documented cases of AI-automated espionage and vulnerability discovery at scale. The report warns that attack velocity is outpacing defensive capability, with AI reducing exploit costs and enabling simultaneous multi-vector campaigns against banks.
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If you build security tools for Indian banks, you're now racing against AI that finds exploits faster than your patches deploy. CERT-In has just told every BFSI buyer that last year's defences are structurally obsolete - real-time inventory, continuous scanning, and zero-trust are now table-stakes, not nice-to-have, and the buyer budget just opened.
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