Inside and Invisible: India’s Businesses Face a Surge in Backdoor Attacks

One of the most dangerous cyber threats to businesses is on the rise in India.

In 2025 alone, Kaspersky’s enterprise solutions detected and blocked 715,077 attacks via backdoors in India, marking a significant 23% year-on-year increase.

Backdoors provide the attackers with remote administration of a victim’s machine. Unlike legitimate remote administration utilities, backdoors install, launch, and run invisibly, without the consent or knowledge of the user. Once installed, backdoors can be instructed to send, receive, execute, and delete files, harvest confidential data from the computer, log activity on the computer, and more.

Kaspersky’s telemetry recorded 715,077 backdoor detections targeting businesses in India in 2025, up 23% from the previous year.

The most alarming part, according to Kaspersky’s telemetry, is the persistent year-on-year (YoY) rise of backdoor detections targeting businesses in India. This upward trend signals a deliberate and growing focus by threat actors on ...