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Staqu announces its collaboration with Raymond
Mumbai: Staqu, an AI implementation enabler, announced its collaboration with Raymond, a fashion and lifestyle industry. Together, they aim to revolutionise Raymond’s offline retail stores by integrating JARVIS into their existing CCTV systems, making them more intelligent and insightful. By leveraging Staqu’s cutting-edge JARVIS solution, Raymond will equip its extensive network of 1400 stores across India with advanced video analytics capabilities.
Raymond has taken a significant leap forward by integrating JARVIS to enhance customer engagement and provide a seamless shopping experience. This cutting-edge technology analyzes customer purchasing patterns, conducts demographic analyses, counts unique visitors, monitors section-wise occupancy, identifies abandoned footfall, and offers counter assistance.
Commenting on the partnership, Staqu co-founder and CEO Atul Rai said, “We believe in innovating and utilizing our technological prowess in AI and Deep Tech to improve the shopping journey of customers. We are proud to partner with Raymond, a brand synonymous with quality and innovation. Our AI platform, JARVIS, is designed to enhance the customer experience, and we are confident it will provide immense value to Raymond’s drive overall business growth with this collaboration, we hope to set a new benchmark in the retail industry.”
He further added, “The e-commerce market has long provided businesses with customer insights that offline stores lacked. However, with JARVIS, offline stores can now collect and analyze customer data to make informed decisions. JARVIS provides real-time customer insights, allowing businesses to optimize stores and store-oriented marketing campaigns.”
Key benefits of Jarvis AI video analytics at Raymond stores
. Analysis of total footfall.
. Analyzes customer demographics.
. Linking footfall with sales for analysis of conversion rates.
. Analyzing peak store times to offer insights into the effectiveness of promotions and layouts.
. Provide aggregate store-level data for measuring performance.
. Analyze store occupancy by section to understand performance in different areas.
. Ensures safety compliance
. Identifies customers leaving without purchasing
. Sends alerts for store opening and closing times.
. Enhances customer service quality with real-time insights and alerts
Raymond CTO Ravi Hudda expressed his enthusiasm, “Our association with Staqu to deploy JARVIS has elevated our retail experience manifold and set a new benchmark for leveraging AI in the fashion industry. With this platform, we are not only embracing the power of AI but also ushering in a new era of customer experiences across our vast network of stores.”
Jarvis boasts advanced video analytics, enabling Raymond to analyze demographics, customer journeys, and conversion rates in real-time, turning data into actionable insights.
The platform’s plug-and-play nature makes it convenient to integrate into existing CCTV camera installations. Raymond’s stores across the country have onboarded JARVIS using an in-house technique that utilizes Private IP rather than RTSP from Public IP. The Jarvis dashboard provides insights at both the individual store level and aggregate levels.
Jarvis ensures safety and data analytics through seamless technology. Its plug-and-play capability only requires a stable internet connection. JARVIS analyzes video data coming from CCTV, offering comprehensive insights. Staqu sets itself apart by combining video management software and video analytics into a single platform, enhancing efficiency beyond other solutions. Unlike other market players that only facilitate post-event analysis or day-by-day reporting, Staqu ensures a continuous flow of communication and enhanced safety.
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India ranks second globally for ransomware detections in 2025
Acronis report warns of surging AI-powered attacks, phishing dominance, and high lateral movement in Indian networks.
MUMBAI: India’s cybersecurity defences are getting a serious stress test, hackers aren’t just knocking on the door anymore, they’re moving in, redecorating, and throwing a ransomware party before anyone notices. Acronis, the global cybersecurity and data protection firm, dropped its biannual Cyberthreats Report for H2 2025 (titled “From exploits to malicious AI”) on 18 February 2026, drawing from telemetry across over one million endpoints via its Threat Research Unit and sensors.
The standout alarm for India: it claimed second place worldwide for ransomware detections trailing only the US with a hefty 31 per cent of all global detections. It also cracked the top 10 for publicly identified ransomware victims, logging 129 cases where organisations went public. More worryingly, India topped charts for lateral movement and mass infection activity, including the planet’s largest internal propagation incidents. Attackers aren’t content with breaching the perimeter; they’re spreading like wildfire inside networks, amplifying disruption and business pain.
Globally, cyberattacks kept climbing in 2025. Email-based threats rose 16 per cent per organisation and 20 per cent per user year-on-year, while phishing stayed king, driving 83 per cent of email threats in the second half and serving as the entry point for 52 per cent of attacks on managed service providers (MSPs). Attacks on collaboration platforms exploded from 12 per cent in 2024 to 31 per cent in 2025, turning tools like Teams and Slack into prime secondary vectors.
Other red flags from the report:
Powershell abuse ruled as the most misused legitimate tool, especially in Germany, the US, and Brazil.
All MSP-platform CVEs disclosed in 2025 earned High or Critical ratings.
AI turned operational for crooks: used for reconnaissance, ransomware negotiations (e.g., Global Group automating chats across victims), data exfiltration (GTG-2002 style), and even chilling social engineering like AI-generated “proof of life” images in virtual kidnapping scams.
Hotspots included India, the US, and the Netherlands for mass infections and lateral hops; South Korea led malware hits at 12% of users affected.
Ransomware favourites targeted manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors crippled by uptime demands. Top groups: Qilin (962 victims), Akira (726), Cl0p (517). Nearly 150 MSPs and telcos hit directly; over 7,600 public victims worldwide, with the US suffering 3,243. Newcomers Sinobi, TheGentlemen, and CoinbaseCartel joined the fray in H2.
Supply-chain woes persisted too, RMM tools like AnyDesk and TeamViewer got exploited, affecting over 1,200 third parties globally, with the US taking 574 hits. Akira and Cl0p led here again.
Acronis CISO Gerald Beuchelt summed it up bluntly, “As cyber threats evolve at an accelerated pace, 2025 has shown that attackers are not only scaling traditional methods like phishing and ransomware, but are leveraging AI to act faster, more efficiently, and at greater scale. This shift requires organisations to anticipate threats, automate defences, and build resilient systems capable of withstanding both traditional and AI-driven attacks.”
For Indian businesses, the message is clear: the threat landscape isn’t just heating up, it’s gone full inferno, with AI fanning the flames. Time to upgrade those digital fire extinguishers before the next breach burns brighter.
