MeitY releases Digital Threat Report 2025-26, flags AI asymmetry as key risk to BFSI

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) flagged AI asymmetry as a key risk to the BFSI and payments ecosystem in its Digital Threat Report 2025-26, warning that offensive capabilities of frontier AI models are scaling faster than regulatory, defensive and operational frameworks designed to contain them. India’s BFSI sector suffered 2.9 million cyber attacks in 2025, increasing over 2x from 1.4 million in 2021. The report, copy of which is with MediaNama, points to two specific inst