AI vs Hackers: India Finance Ministry Demands Neural Networks for Market Protection

The financial sector is hastily arming itself with algorithms for self-defense. On April 25, 2026, the Indian Ministry of Finance officially urged the market regulator SEBI to actively use artificial intelligence to combat growing cyber risks.

This directive fits perfectly into the global narrative of recent days. After central banks in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan sounded the alarm over the elite AI model Anthropic Mythos, capable of finding code vulnerabilities, India is taking symmetrical steps. Regulators understand that the only way to protect national financial infrastructure from AI-armed hackers is with a counter-security perimeter based on machine learning. Classic antiviruses and firewalls are definitively obsolete.

Source: SEBI / Reuters