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Finance, healthcare cyber threats stay high in first half
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…
The Story in Brief
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.
The Indian Opinion
The numbers invite a lazy headline: cyber threats exploding, banks under siege. But the data tells a more nuanced story. While scanning and probing rose, targeted campaigns against banks actually fell. That suggests attackers are broadly testing defences, not always breaching them. The bigger worry is AI-enabled threats reaching critical infrastructure drills, a sign the risk is shifting. Watch the second-half figures: a repeat of the first half would confirm a trend, not a spike. How many campaigns convert into actual breaches should settle the noise.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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