OnGrid acquires Ancora Technologies to unite verification and distribution across India’s BFSI ecosystem https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-131932782,imgsize-179913,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/identity-access-management/ongrid-acquires-ancora-technologies-to-unite-verification-and-distribution-across-indias-bfsi-ecosystem.jpg OnGrid Group, the company behind OnGrid (employment and identity trust), Gridlines (BFSI verification and onboarding APIs), eLockr (digital credentialing) and Reczee (hiring workflows), today announced the acquisition of Ancora, the Gurugram-based provider of AI-driven incentives and commission management for sales channels. The combination brings together two ...

The Growing Threat of Cyber-Physical Risks in the Surveillance Economy, ETCISO The world’s surveillance infrastructure is undergoing a silent but profound transformation. What began as a tool for monitoring traffic junctions, securing office premises, and deterring crime has evolved into one of the most pervasive and strategically important components of modern digital infrastructure. The global CCTV camera market size is ...

When the breach doesn’t happen, the real warning begins https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-131169830,imgsize-6906,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/when-the-breach-doesnt-happen-the-real-warning-begins.jpg In cybersecurity, the incident that makes headlines is usually the one that succeeds. The ransomware spreads, the systems go down, the data leaks, and the postmortem begins. But some of the most important warnings arrive earlier, in quieter form. A phishing payload slips through but gets stopped on execution. A ...

AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It. https://firewalls.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/watch.jpg AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is ...

Bank fraud amount surges to Rs 48,021 crore in FY26; digital payment frauds decline: RBI https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-131403222,imgsize-56169,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/cybercrime-fraud/bank-fraud-hits-record-rs-48021-crore-in-fy26-rbi-reports-major-shifts-in-fraud-trends.jpg The total amount involved in bank frauds rose sharply in FY2025-26 despite a steep decline in the number of reported cases, with loan-related frauds accounting for nearly 85 per cent of the overall amount involved during the year. The amount involved in bank frauds ...

Old vulnerabilities, new vectors, and machine speed, ETCISO Having managed digital risk through three decades of enterprise technology shifts, Nitin Mehta has a sharp perspective on how boardroom excitement eventually gives way to governance realities. Today, as Partner and Digital Risk Leader at EY India, his role is centered on a very specific kind of corporate friction: advising leadership teams ...

AI-related data breaches surging https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-131215633,imgsize-57236,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/ai-related-data-breaches-surging.jpg Hackers are increasingly using AI to detect software vulnerabilities, which has shortened the time that targets have to respond to threats, Verizon said in an annual report tracking data breaches. Verizon said using software flaws in data surpassed stolen credentials for the first time. It said in a review of more than 31,000 incidents, 31% ...

NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE https://firewalls.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nginx.jpg Ravie LakshmananMay 17, 2026Server Security / Vulnerability A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow ...

Grok down: Users report app, website and login issues https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-131108890,imgsize-3876,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/ot-security/grok-down-users-report-app-website-and-login-issues.jpg Users across several regions reported problems with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok on Friday, with many unable to access the AI chatbot, receive replies or sign in to the app. Data from outage tracker Downdetector showed that most complaints came from mobile app users, making up 71% of reports. Another ...

How Google may have confirmed Anthropic’s Mythos fears that sent shock waves across banks and financial institutions, ETCISO Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently revealed that it successfully blocked a massive cyberattack where criminals used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and weaponise a previously unknown software flaw. Google’s message is clear: The era of the ‘AI-powered hacker’ has officially arrived. ...