CERT-IN warns of escalating AI-assisted attacks on Indian financial firms by CRAFTY FALCON
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- Severity
- High
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What happened
India's national cyber emergency team has warned banks, lenders and payment firms about an escalating group of attackers that uses AI tools. The group often strikes at weekends and holidays, when staff are less likely to notice, and it has returned to victims whose earlier clean-up was incomplete.
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What to do
- Take development and test environments off the internet and restrict access to cloud resources.
- Improve logging of events and monitor for anomalies in real time with alerting.
- Monitor around the clock, especially during holidays and weekends.
- Fully remediate any earlier incident, as the group has returned to victims after incomplete clean-up.
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