Seqrite Detects Increase in Fake Domains Targeting Ahmedabad Businesses, Signals Evolution of Phishing into Brand-Led Attacks

April 23, 2026

Seqrite spotlights rising impersonation-led cyber risks; urges organisations to strengthen digital risk protection and DPDP readiness

Pune, 28th April, 2026: EAs Ahmedabad’s businesses expand their digital footprint, a more insidious threat is advancing in parallel. Fake domain registrations, engineered to imitate legitimate business identities, are fast emerging as a high-impact instrument for cybercriminals to penetrate trust-based ecosystems and orchestrate fraud at scale.

Amid this surging threat matrix, Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has identified a growing pattern of domain-based impersonation attacks targeting businesses, customers, and vendor networks across the city. These attacks are not opportunistic. They are deliberate, calculated, and engineered to exploit the one vulnerability that remains hardest to defend; trust.

A fake domain attack does not break systems. Rather, it subverts trust. By registering domains that closely mirror legitimate business identities, often through minor visual deviations such as a single altered character or a subtle extension, attackers create a near-indistinguishable façade of authenticity. These domains are then operationalized across fraudulent emails, cloned payment interfaces, and spoofed vendor communications. To the end user, the interaction appears legitimate. By the time doubt surfaces, the compromise is already complete.

This approach is gaining traction because it is efficient and scalable. Unlike conventional cyberattacks that depend on exploiting system vulnerabilities, domain impersonation capitalizes on familiarity. It bypasses traditional security controls by embedding itself within communication channels that are already trusted and actively used.

As Ahmedabad continues to strengthen its position as a commercial and industrial hub, the density and interconnectedness of its business networks are expanding its attack surface. Fake domains are increasingly being deployed to replicate supplier ecosystems, payment workflows, and customer engagement channels, enabling adversaries to integrate themselves into legitimate business operations without triggering immediate detection.

Defending against such threats requires a shift from reactive cybersecurity to continuous digital risk visibility. Organizations must move beyond perimeter-centric models and actively monitor domain registrations, track brand impersonation attempts, and identify external threat vectors before they are weaponized. In an environment where threats originate outside organizational boundaries, visibility becomes the first line of defense.

The regulatory implications of these attacks are significant. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, organizations are mandated to safeguard personal data across their digital environments. A domain-based impersonation attack can lead to unauthorised data exposure, triggering compliance violations, financial penalties, and reputational damage.

In this context, solutions such as Seqrite Digital Risk Protection Service evolve from optional safeguards to operational imperatives. By enabling continuous monitoring of external digital assets, identifying fraudulent domains, and facilitating rapid takedown actions, organizations can reduce their exposure to impersonation-led threats. Complementing this, Seqrite Data Privacy enables enterprises to align with DPDP requirements through automated data discovery, classification, and governance across complex digital environments.

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: https://www.quickheal.co.in/

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