Most enterprises are not ready for the next major cyberattack, according to Sygnia’s 2026 State of Incident Response Readiness report. The study, based on a survey of 600 senior IT security decision makers across 10 markets, shows that nearly three-quarters of respondents do not believe their organisation would be fully ready if a serious cyber incident happened tomorrow. Readiness Gap Widens The report paints a picture of...

Netskope has introduced its new AI Command Center, a unified platform designed to help security teams discover AI usage across the enterprise, assess the risks that matter most, and respond with greater speed and coordination. The launch expands the company’s AI Security suite at a time when AI adoption is accelerating faster than many organisations can track or govern. The product is aimed at one...

Password-stealer malware is emerging as one of the most serious credential theft risks facing Indian enterprises, according to Kaspersky. The company says attacks targeting its business users in India rose 20% year on year in 2025, with detections increasing from 188,470 in 2024 to 225,223 last year. The trend matters because password stealers do not rely on noisy disruption; they quietly extract stored passwords, browser...

Supply chain attacks have overtaken all other cyberthreats to become the most frequent issue confronting businesses over the past year, according to a comprehensive global study by Kaspersky. The research reveals that nearly one in every three companies has had to confront a supply chain threat in the last 12 months, with exposure levels in regions such as Mexico, China, and Spain significantly exceeding the...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a high-severity advisory warning that frontier AI systems are rapidly increasing cyber capability maturity and could make it easier to discover vulnerabilities, chain attacks, automate reconnaissance, and launch highly convincing phishing campaigns at scale. In Advisory CIAD-2026-0020, titled Defending Against Frontier AI Driven Cyber Risks, CERT-In said the latest AI models could lower the barrier...

NatWest Group has announced a strategic partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, through its Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), to foster deep collaboration between industry and academia. The initiative is designed to engage leading technology talent and skills while accelerating innovation across core areas, including artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, and other emerging technologies. By leveraging IIT Delhi’s academic and...

Check Point Software Technologies and Google Cloud have announced a cybersecurity partnership designed to help enterprises secure AI‑agent deployments at scale. Check Point will integrate its AI Defense Plane with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a launch partner, combining Google’s agent‑control infrastructure with Check Point’s governance and behavioural‑protection layer. The collaboration is being positioned as a foundational security framework for organisations moving...

Microsoft has released an emergency, out‑of‑band security update to fix a critical vulnerability in the widely used web framework ASP.NET Core, urging organisations to patch immediately. The flaw, tracked as CVE‑2026‑40372, affects the ASP.NET Core Data Protection cryptographic component and could allow unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication cookies and escalate privileges to the SYSTEM level. The vulnerability is rated 9.1 on the CVSS scale, reflecting...

Security and AI‑operations firm Rubrik has warned that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is outpacing the ability to secure these autonomous systems, with new research from Rubrik Zero Labs highlighting a critical gap between innovation and identity‑governance controls. The report, titled The State of the Agent: Understanding Adoption, Risk, and Mitigation, is based on a survey of more than 1,600 global IT and security...

Ransomware continues to exact a devastating toll on Japanese enterprises, with a landmark survey exposing the futility of ransom payments: over 200 firms shelled out to cybercriminals, yet nearly 60% watched helplessly as their data remained locked despite compliance. Conducted in January by the Japan Institute for Promotion of Digital Economy and Community (JIPDEC), the study polled 1,107 companies and uncovered 507 ransomware victims—46%...