JIITA, Vol.10 no.2 pp. 1321-1336 (2026), DOI: 10.22664/ISITA.2026.10.2.1321
Malathy S , R.Anandhi
Abstract. The buzzwords “stock”, “stock market” and “share market” are the order of
the day as they play a vital role in finance and economic growth of a country. Since it
involves the money transactions, security remains an issue, especially on the side of
investors (ie) retail participants tend to lose more funds and have less trust compared
to large investors, mostly due to cybersecurity frauds. All these threats exploit
vulnerabilities in the stock market to bring about manipulated prices that shake
investor confidence even further. This article details how these threats, cyberattacks,
frauds, and data breaches in the stock market can be detected and identified to
minimize their occurences. This paper further explains the tools and technologies to
detect the same in the real time scenario to ensure safety of the market from such
malicious activities as they point out that strong security measures and guarantee the
chance of trading more safe and transparent environment for all investors, retail
investors in particular.
Keywords; Cybersecurity, Cyberattacks, Fraud Detection, Cyberthreat Detection Tools.