India logged 265 million cyber attacks in a year, reports Seqrite in its India Cyber Threat Report 2026

Seqrite released its India Cyber Threat Report 2026, outlining one of the most active cyber threat periods observed in the country. The report, developed by Seqrite Labs, which monitors more than 8 million endpoints, provides an assessment of threat activity between October 2024 and September 2025.

During this period, Seqrite recorded 265.52 million detections, averaging more than 727,000 detections per day and 505 detections every minute. Trojans and file infectors remained the most common categories, with 88.4 million Trojan detections and 71.1 million file infector detections, together accounting for nearly 70% of all observed attacks.

Next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and anti-ransomware engines detected over 34 million anomalous activities. Ransomware activity peaked in January 2025, with 185 incidents and 113,000 detections documented. Cryptojacking detections reached 6.5 million, while network-based exploit scans exceeded 9.2 million, frequently targeting systems running WordPress plugins, Apache Tomcat and SysAid.

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