On 4 November, CERT-In published an advisory about an attacker it calls Crafty Falcon, working its way through Indian non-bank lenders, fintech firms, payment aggregators and crypto exchanges. The detail every outlet picked up was AI hacking: the attackers are using publicly available AI penetration-testing tools to run attack chains, in CERT-In’s words, autonomously at…
On 21 October, CyberDost — the Home Ministry’s cybercrime awareness arm under I4C — warned Indian shoppers about fake festive sale ads leading to lookalike shopping sites. Good advice, correctly timed. Check the URL, avoid sponsored links, do not pay in advance, prefer cash on delivery. But that warning describes a scam that wants your…
Apple’s first folding phone went on sale in India on 23 October. Within hours, two stories were racing around the internet: that its screen cracks along the hinge, and that somebody had already jailbroken it. Both stories are real. Neither means what the headlines suggest. If you have just spent ₹2,99,900 on an iPhone Duo,…
If you run a website in India, yesterday was noisy. European government portals went dark on purpose. Hosting companies sent emails at midnight. And somewhere in the middle of it, a WhatsApp forward probably told you your site was about to be hacked. Here is the calmer version. A critical PHP vulnerability — two of…
From 1 November 2026, India switches on caller name display for every mobile user. Call someone who does not have your number saved, and your name appears on their screen. Not your number. Your name, as it sits in your operator’s KYC records. Most coverage of India’s new caller name display rules has reported that…
On 12 October, Meta announced its first frontier-class AI models and published benchmarks showing them matching or beating OpenAI and Anthropic. It was the biggest AI launch of the week. For anyone in India, it was also entirely theoretical. Meta Muse, the assistant these models are built to power, launched in September in the United…
On 4 November 2025, India got something unusual: a year of ChatGPT Go, free, for anyone in the country who wanted it. Millions took it. The redemption window closed on 21 January 2026. Count twelve months forward from the day you claimed it. For the earliest claimants, that lands on 4 November 2026 — about…
On 8 October, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India will publish a consultation paper on regulating AI content within thirty days. That got the headlines. Here is what mostly did not: India has had binding rules on AI content since 20 February 2026. They require a visible label covering 10% of the screen. They apply…
Both festive sales are now running, and the same five words are on every banner: 10% instant discount with your bank card. We read the actual terms. Axis Bank publishes a PDF for the Flipkart sale, and it runs to seven different caps. Depending on which invisible category your purchase falls into, that “10%” pays…
On 6 October, Meta and the AI company Sierra published something that sounds dull and is not: an open standard for letting AI agents log into businesses and act on your behalf. The founding partners include Walmart, Shopify and Stripe. Walmart owns Flipkart. Flipkart’s Big Billion Days opens in two days. And Google is already…