Sci-Tech · 25 Aug 2026
Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched with its actual context, as reported in connection with India's recent AI-enabled cybersecurity threat landscape?
With CloudSEK ranking India among the most cyber-attacked nations globally and CERT-In issuing fresh AI-threat advisories, the shift from AI-assisted to AI-directed cyberattacks - demonstrated by the GTG-1002 campaign - raises urgent questions about India's institutional preparedness and its lagging indigenous AI stack.
This tests precise recall of which named actor (state-sponsored group, ransomware gang, threat-intel firm, indigenous software) corresponds to which real-world role - a format UPSC increasingly uses for fast-moving cyber and tech current affairs with many similarly-named entities.
GTG-1002 (China-linked) used an AI agent across a cyber-espionage campaign; World Leaks (ransomware) breached a Kudankulam contractor; APT36 (Pakistan-linked) targeted India's BOSS Linux OS during Operation Sindoor; CloudSEK is a threat-intelligence firm, not an OS.
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