The cybercrime landscape in India has witnessed a drastic increase with NCRB data indicating cases jacking up from above 52,000 in 2021 to over 86,000 by 2023 led by fraud and online financial crime. Concurrently, threat intelligence shows that India is now a high‑risk ransomware and dark‑web ecosystem within the Asia‑Pacific region.
NCRB data and growth trend
The report suggests that NCRB’s “Crime in India” figures show an alarming and persistent increase in reported cybercrimes, increasing from just above 52,000 cases in 2021 to beyond 86,000 cases by 2023, owing to increased digitization, online payments and use of mobile internet. This is a 31.2% year-on-year increase between 2022 and 2023 alone and the country’s cybercrime rate has increased from 4.8 to 6.2 cases per lakh population.
Fraud is the most prevalent motive, making up almost 69% of all cybercrime incidents in 2023, followed by sexual exploitation, and extortion, highlighting that attackers mainly prey on financial and personal vulnerabilities. States such as Karnataka, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh accoun
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