India's Banks Under Cyberattack: How AI Is Changing the Game

The Morning Brief · Nov 5, 2026 · 19m

India's rapidly expanding financial ecosystem faces a growing cybersecurity challenge. While large banks have invested heavily in protecting their systems, fintech companies and non-banking financial institutions remain vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks. Artificial intelligence is changing the economics of cybercrime, allowing attackers to identify weaknesses faster, at significantly lower costs and on a much larger scale.

Anirban Chowdhury speaks to Yash Kakadia, founder of Security Brigade, about how these attacks work, the vulnerabilities within financial technology…