Secure Digital World (SDW)

  On June 30, 2026 , the Reserve Bank of India’s Financial Stability Report identified AI-enabled cyber threats as the leading perceived cyber risk for the next 12 months facing major Indian banks and non-bank lenders. Reuters reported that the RBI now sees cybersecurity as a key financial-stability concern, not only an IT-security issue. This matters because financial institutions are becoming more dependent on digital channels, automated decision systems, connected service providers, and high-speed operations. In that environment, AI can increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks, making phishing, fraud, impersonation, credential attacks, and operational disruption harder to detect and faster to execute. From a financial-sector resilience perspective, this is an important signal. When a central bank frames cyber risk as a financial-stability issue, the message is broader than routine cyber hygiene. It means cyber threats can affect trust, continuity, digital...

On July 1, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-45659 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. NVD describes the issue as a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint that may allow an authorized attacker to execute code over a network. This issue is especially important because SharePoint is not just a collaboration tool. In many organizations, it supports sensitive documents, internal workflows, identity-linked access, and business-critical knowledge repositories. When an actively exploited SharePoint server is exposed, the risk can move quickly from a vulnerability-management issue to broader enterprise compromise. According to NVD’s Microsoft-sourced information, the vulnerability affects Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 , SharePoint Server 2019 , and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition . The same entry shows a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (High). From an enterprise security perspect...