How data and technology are redefining risk assessment in India, ETCISO India’s digital infrastructure—powered by Aadhaar, DigiLocker, and India Stack—has fundamentally reshaped how insurers approach risk assessment. These platforms enable insurers to check identities, view financial history, and determine risk in a matter of taps, significantly cutting onboarding times. Insurers are investing in satellite imagery and remote sensing technologies to ...
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Qantas customer data released by hackers after July breach, says airline
Qantas customer data released by hackers after July breach, says airline https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-124516943,imgsize-29794,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/qantas-customer-data-released-by-hackers-after-july-breach-says-airline.jpg Qantas Airways said on Sunday, October 12 that it is among the companies whose customer data was published by cybercriminals following a July database breach, reports Reuters. The airline had previously confirmed that more than one million customers had sensitive details such as phone numbers, birth dates, or ...
Read More »Chinese Hackers Exploit ArcGIS Server as Backdoor for Over a Year
Chinese Hackers Exploit ArcGIS Server as Backdoor for Over a Year https://firewalls.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/chinese-hackers.jpg Oct 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored ...
Read More »NSE faces 170 million daily cyberattacks, maintains uninterrupted operations
NSE faces 170 million daily cyberattacks, maintains uninterrupted operations https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-124516968,imgsize-50508,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/cybercrime-fraud/nse-faces-around-170-million-cyberattacks-daily-dedicated-cyber-warriors-ensure-uninterrupted-ops.jpg The National Stock Exchange (NSE) faces around 170 million cyberattacks daily, requiring a dedicated team of “cyber warriors” to work around the clock to ensure uninterrupted operations. The NSE recorded its highest-ever 40 crore (400 million) cyberattacks in a single day during ‘Operation Sindoor’, designed as a DDoS simulation. However, ...
Read More »India is pivoting beyond OTP to identity-first: Siddharth Gandhi, 1Kosmos, ETCISO
India is pivoting beyond OTP to identity-first: Siddharth Gandhi, 1Kosmos, ETCISO The center of gravity in authentication is shifting away from OTP to who you are and what you control. With the Reserve Bank of India’s Additional Factors of Authentication (AFA) and Securities and Exchange Board of India’s Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) setting the direction, verified identity, device binding, and passwordless ...
Read More »Fortinet report: Data loss rises despite stronger security and higher spending
Fortinet report: Data loss rises despite stronger security and higher spending https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-124407373,imgsize-14212,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/fortinet-report-data-loss-rises-despite-stronger-security-and-higher-spending.jpg The 2025 Data Security Report from Fortinet and Cybersecurity Insiders reveals that despite adopting smarter strategies and increasing budgets, data loss incidents continue to rise. While most organizations rely on some form of data loss prevention (DLP), many lack visibility into how employees interact with data—particularly across SaaS ...
Read More »Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers
Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers https://firewalls.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/nodejs-malware.jpg Oct 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Data Theft Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active malware campaign called Stealit that has leveraged Node.js’ Single Executable Application (SEA) feature as a way to distribute its payloads. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, select iterations have also employed the open-source ...
Read More »G4S India’s AI shift: From guards on the ground to ‘Phygital’ security
G4S India’s AI shift: From guards on the ground to ‘Phygital’ security https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-124453423,imgsize-241896,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/next-gen-tech/g4s-indias-ai-shift-from-guards-on-the-ground-to-phygital-security.jpg Rajeev Sharma, Country Managing Director, G4S India When Rajeev Sharma, Country Managing Director at G4S India, talks about the company’s AI transformation, he keeps it simple, sans jargon. “AI is driving G4S India’s transformation from a manpower-heavy security provider into a technology-first ‘phygital’ solutions company,” he tells ...
Read More »Building cyber resilience in Indian enterprises with passkeys and AI, ETCISO
Building cyber resilience in Indian enterprises with passkeys and AI, ETCISO Indian enterprises are charging ahead with digital transformation. Cloud-first projects, UPI, online banking, e-commerce, hybrid workplaces; there’s hardly a sector untouched by this shift. But growth has a shadow. Every new platform, every new endpoint, is another doorway for attackers. The more digital we become, the more exposed we ...
Read More »C-Suite’s rush to AI blinds leadership to critical security failures, leaving organisations exposed
C-Suite’s rush to AI blinds leadership to critical security failures, leaving organisations exposed https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-124332614,imgsize-616410,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/c-suites-rush-to-ai-blinds-leadership-to-critical-security-failures.jpg As organisations aggressively pursue technologies like artificial intelligence, a dangerous disconnect is growing between innovation and security. Data from Tenable’s State of Cloud and AI Security 2025 report reveals that critical strategic errors – from a reliance on outdated assumptions to the use of purely reactive ...
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