Cybersecurity in Focus: Recent Threats Targeting India Amid Independence Day Celebrations

This intelligence update reports a surge in organized cyber threats against India coinciding with Independence Day: coordinated hacktivist campaigns (defacement, DDoS, data leaks), large-scale phishing and fake-domain fraud targeting citizens and government services, and sustained APT operations (APT36, SideCopy, APT41) conducting credential harvesting, supply-chain intrusions, zero‑day exploitation, and RAT-based espionage against critical sectors such as government, defence, finance, healthcare and technology.