Quick Heal Technologies Limited Strengthens Digital India’s Cybersecurity Shield as Maharashtra, UP, and Delhi Emerge as India’s Top Malware Hotspots in 2025

January 23, 2026

Pune, 23rd January 2026: The cybersecurity landscape in India facing unprecedented challenges as the penetration of digital services across the country continues to increase. Amidst this, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi have emerged as the leading malware hotspots. The India Cyber Threat Report 2026, recently released by Seqrite, the enterprise arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, reveals that these three states account for a significant portion of India’s 265.52 million malware detections. In response to these emerging threats, Quick Heal Technologies Limited remains committed to safeguarding citizens, businesses, and institutions from cyber fraud in an increasingly digital-first economy. The report, prepared meticulously by researchers at Seqrite Labs, India’s largest malware analysis facility, stands as a key analysis of India’s cyber threat landscape from October 2024 to September 2025. Seqrite researchers assessed over more than 8 million endpoints, making an average of 505 detections every minute. Maharashtra alone registered 36.13 million detections, representing 24.31% of the national threat volume, followed by Gujarat with 24.13 million detections and Delhi NCR with 15.41 million. At the city level, Mumbai emerged as the most targeted city with 16.59 million detections, followed by New Delhi with 15.32 million and Kolkata with 11.87 million. The primary factor leading to the high number of detections in these cities is the concentration of financial, political, and industrial activity in these areas. Recognizing this, Quick Heal Technologies Limited continues to strengthen its role as the nation’s cybersecurity backbone. In complete alignment with its motto “Digital Bharat ka Bharosa, Fraud se Suraksha”, the company is ensuring that every citizen, enterprise, and institution can confidently embrace technology without fear of cyber threats.

The India Cyber Threat Report 2026 identifies a clear shift in India’s threat ecosystem from reactive, episodic attacks to continuous, automation-driven patterns. Seqrite researchers reveal that threat actors are no longer waiting for vulnerabilities to emerge; they are constantly scanning, exploiting, and monetizing digital weaknesses. At the operational level, Trojans (43%) and File Infectors (35%) together accounted for nearly 70% of all malware detections, reflecting adversaries’ sustained success through social engineering, cracked software, and legacy vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the relentless pace and sophistication of cyber threats targeting Indian enterprises, driven by a complex blend of legacy malware, fileless intrusions, AI-assisted phishing, and ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations that show no signs of abatement.

Looking ahead to 2026 and beyond, Seqrite forecasts an era of cognitive intrusions where adversaries leverage artificial intelligence to automate reconnaissance, deception, and persistence. The threat battlefield is likely to evolve from code-based to context-aware attacks, demanding defenses that are predictive, autonomous, and intelligence-led. Seqrite recommends that organizations prioritize predictive intelligence, accelerate patch orchestration, reinforce identity as the new perimeter, harden the AI layer, advance autonomous detection and response, build resilience frameworks, strengthen ecosystem collaboration, and secure the human element against the emerging wave of cognitive threats.

About Seqrite

Seqrite is a leading enterprise cybersecurity solutions provider. With a focus on simplifying cybersecurity, Seqrite delivers comprehensive solutions and services through our patented, AI/ML-powered tech stack to protect businesses against the latest threats by securing devices, applications, networks, cloud, data, and identity. Seqrite is the Enterprise arm of the global cybersecurity brand, Quick Heal Technologies Limited, the only listed cybersecurity products and solutions company in India.

We are the first and only Indian company to have solidified India’s position on the global map by collaborating with the Govt. of the USA on its NIST NCCoE’s Data Classification project. We are differentiated by our easy-to-deploy, seamless-to-integrate comprehensive solutions providing the highest level of protection against emerging and sophisticated threats powered by state-of-the-art threat intelligence and playbooks backed by world-class service provided by best-in-class security experts at India’s largest malware analysis lab – Seqrite Labs. We are the only Indian full-stack company aligned with CSMA architecture recommendations, offering award-winning Endpoint Protection, Enterprise Mobile Device Management, Data Privacy, Zero Trust Network Access, and many more. Seqrite Data Privacy Management solution enables organizations to stay fully compliant with the DPDP Act and global regulations. We have recently launched Digital Risk Protection Services for external threat monitoring and Ransomware Recovery as a Service for rapid, guided restoration after ransomware attacks. Seqrite has also unveiled SIA, an LLM-powered security co-pilot built on GoDeep.AI to help enterprises navigate growing cyber complexity with intelligent, conversational analysis.

Today, 30,000+ enterprises in more than 70 countries trust Seqrite with their cybersecurity needs. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/42E5BCJ

About Quick Heal Technologies Limited

Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. is a global cybersecurity solutions provider. Each Quick Heal product is designed to simplify IT security management across the length and depth of devices and on multiple platforms. They are customized to suit consumers, small businesses, government establishments, and corporate houses. Over a span of nearly 3 decades, the company’s R&D has focused on computer and network security solutions.

The current portfolio of cloud-based security and advanced machine learning-enabled solutions stops threats, attacks, and malicious traffic before it strikes. This considerably reduces the system resource usage. The security solutions are indigenously developed in India. Quick Heal Antivirus Solutions, Quick Heal Scan Engine, and the entire range of Quick Heal products are proprietary items of Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. Recently, unveiled Quick Heal pioneers India’s first fraud prevention solution, AntiFraud.AI, available for Android, iOS and Windows.

For more information, please visit: www.quickheal.co.in

AntiFraud.AI – www.quickheal.co.in/quick-heal-antifraud