{"id":1047649,"date":"2026-11-06T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047649"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:05:44","slug":"cert-in-issues-critical-alert-on-ai-powered-cyberattacks-targeting-banks-fintech-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/cert-in-issues-critical-alert-on-ai-powered-cyberattacks-targeting-banks-fintech-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"CERT-In issues critical alert on AI-powered cyberattacks targeting banks, fintech firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s cyber agency CERT-In has issued a critical-severity advisory on a growing campaign of AI-assisted attacks on banks, lenders and payment firms. It warns that the threat is active and still escalating. The advisory, CIAD-2026-0058, was issued on November 4. It updates an October 9 advisory (CIAD-2026-0046) on attackers exploiting payment and disbursement APIs to make unauthorised fund transfers. CERT-In said continued analysis of reported incidents showed a significant escalation since then.<\/p>\n<p>Who is being targeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s cyber agency CERT-In has issued a critical-severity advisory on a growing campaign of AI-assisted attacks on banks, lenders and payment firms. It warns that the threat is active and still escalating. The advisory, CIAD-2026-0058, was issued on November 4. It updates an October 9 advisory (CIAD-2026-0046) on attackers exploiting payment and disbursement APIs to make unauthorised fund transfers. CERT-In said continued analysis of reported incidents showed a significant escalation since then. Who is being targeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047649","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047650,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047649\/revisions\/1047650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}