India, Nov. 3 -- October was a month of contrasts for the Indian startup ecosystem. While AI, deeptech and advanced manufacturing continued to attract significant investor capital, a series of cybersecurity incidents and regulatory actions highlighted the risks and responsibilities that come with scaling digital businesses.

The month saw India's cybersecurity watchdog CERT-In flag unauthorised access to Indian organisations' live systems by AI agents under evaluation, alongside the use of agentic tools in financially motivated cyberattacks.

Digital trust company eMudhra faced a major security setback after researchers recovered eight weak private keys from publicly available certificates, prompting Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft t...