India, Feb. 23 -- AI-powered and automation-driven cyberattacks are increasingly targeting Indian manufacturing plants, raising concerns over production downtime and supply-chain disruption. The findings emerge from the Seqrite India Cyber Threat Report 2026, covering threat activity between October 2024 and September 2025.

Seqrite recorded 265.52 million detections across more than 8 million endpoints in India, averaging 505 detections every minute. Engineering and manufacturing accounted for 3.79 million detections, representing 14.22 percent of total industry volume. The sector ranked among the top three most targeted segments alongside education and healthcare, which together contributed nearly 47 percent of overall detections.

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