1,172 phishing domains detected in H1: National Technical Research Organisation

New Delhi: The agency under the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) to protect the nation's critical information infrastructure on Thursday informed a parliamentary panel that it detected 1,172 phishing domains in the first half of 2025 and shared the details with the concerned entities, sources said.

Representatives from the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) under the NTRO were among top officials from several organisations who briefed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs on the issue of cybersecurity. The panel is chaired by BJP Rajya Sabha member Radha Mohan Das Agarwal. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi is a member.

The NCIIPC has identified seven sectors as critical - banking, financial services and insurance; power and energy; telecom; transport; strategic and public enterprises; health and government - and works towards identification and protection of critical infrastructures within these sectors. At present 427 information infrastructure of 114 organisations have been declared critical.


The NCIIPC informed the panel that it has formulated a critical matrix based on which computer resources of organisations within the critical sectors are jointly assessed by it and the respective organisation.

From 2023, the agency conducts an annual security exercise, the panel was told, according to sources in the know of the deliberations. This year, it was conducted in April at four locations - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, with 550 participants.