Global Cyberattack Cripples Major Servers; Indian Financial Services Among Targets

In a sophisticated cyberattack that affected multiple continents, critical servers of global cloud providers were breached, triggering outages across banking, telecom, and government sectors. In India, major disruptions were reported in digital payment gateways, railway reservation systems, and cloud hosted municipal services. Cybersecurity experts believe a state sponsored hacking group exploited zero day vulnerabilities in containerized systems. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT IN) confirmed that "deep packet inspection and DNS spoofing were used to bypass secure tunnels." The breach prompted emergency meetings with the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY). Authorities are now calling for urgent updates to India’s Cybersecurity Policy 2020 and the formation of a real time National Cyber Shield. The incident raises alarms about cloud overdependence and underscores the need for indigenous encryption and AI based intrusion detection systems.