India is patching slower while cyber attackers move faster: What’s the fix?
By Rajnish Gupta, MD & Country Manager, Tenable India
In January 2026, the Sinobi ransomware group broke into an Indian IT services company and walked away with Hyper-V server access, virtual machine images, customer backups and claimed more than 150GB of stolen data. A few months earlier, one of India’s largest stockbroking platforms disclosed that attackers had accessed an unsecured AWS storage bucket, exposing data tied to 7.9 million users. Prior to that, a major asset and offshore management company suffered a cyberattack that shut down its website, portal and mobile app, cutting off investors from their own accounts during a period of market volatility.
In each one of these attacks, threat actors exploited known, documented vulnerabilities like misconfigurations, unpatched systems and exposed cloud resources that weren’t addressed in time. Vulnerability exploitation has become the single largest initial access vector in data breaches, accounting for 31% of all incidents. The...
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