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MeitY releases second Digital Threat Report 2025–26 for BFSI sector

MeitY, with CERT-In, CSIRT-Fin and SISA, released the second edition of the Digital Threat Report 2025–26 for India's banking, financial services, insurance and payments ecosystem on 13 July 2026.

Summary

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), along with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the Computer Security Incident Response Team in Finance (CSIRT-Fin) and SISA, released the second edition of the Digital Threat Report 2025–26 for the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) and payments ecosystem on 13 July 2026. The report gives financial institutions and regulators an assessment of cyber threats, highlighting AI asymmetry and emerging trends. MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan launched the report.

Key facts

Report
Digital Threat Report 2025–26 (2nd edition), BFSI and payments
Released
13 July 2026
Partners
MeitY, CERT-In, CSIRT-Fin, SISA
Theme
AI asymmetry and emerging cyber trends

Practice MCQs 1 questions

Q1

The second edition of the Digital Threat Report 2025–26 released by MeitY in July 2026 focuses on which sector?

Show answer

Correct answer: A — Banking, financial services, insurance and payments

The report covers the BFSI and payments ecosystem; it was prepared with CERT-In, CSIRT-Fin and SISA.

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