# Finance, healthcare cyber threats stay high in first half 2026-08-10T04:40:30+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Cyber attacks on India's finance and healthcare sectors stayed elevated in the first half of 2026, with detections already crossing 60% of last year's totals, government data shows. CERT-In detected and mitigated nearly 3.5 lakh instances in finance between January and June, against 5.7 lakh in all of 2025. Healthcare recorded 18,855 instances, roughly 55% of the 34,480 seen last year. Targeted intrusion campaigns against banks fell to 17 in the first half from 39 in all of 2025. CERT-In ran two power-sector cybersecurity exercises in H1 2026, one focused on threats from frontier AI models, involving 274 participants from 103 organisations. In 2025, it held three exercises with 150 participants from 30 organisations. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Tags: AI, CERT-In, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, finance, healthcare Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/finance-healthcare-cyber-threats-stay-high-in-first-half/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/finance-healthcare-cyber-threats-stay-high-in-first-half/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.