{"id":1043491,"date":"2026-10-15T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043491"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:32:09","slug":"cyberattacks-affect-20-financial-institutions-cert-in-warns-on-api-vulnerabilities-and-security-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/cyberattacks-affect-20-financial-institutions-cert-in-warns-on-api-vulnerabilities-and-security-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattacks affect 20 financial institutions; CERT-In warns on API vulnerabilities and security measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: As many as 20 financial institutions were affected earlier this month by a spate of cyberattacks in which funds were siphoned off using stolen partner-bank credentials, people familiar with the development told ET. In response, banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and fintech firms restricted payment and disbursement application programming interfaces (APIs), said the people cited earlier. <\/p>\n<p>The attacks, which may have involved AI-assisted hacking tools, prompted a critical advisory from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), warning financial institutions to suspend compromised interfaces and strengthen transaction safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: As many as 20 financial institutions were affected earlier this month by a spate of cyberattacks in which funds were siphoned off using stolen partner-bank credentials, people familiar with the development told ET. In response, banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and fintech firms restricted payment and disbursement application programming interfaces (APIs), said the people cited earlier. The attacks, which may have involved AI-assisted hacking tools, prompted a critical advisory from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), warning financial institutions to suspend compromised interfaces and strengthen transaction safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043510,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043491\/revisions\/1043510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}