India Witnessed a 37% increase in Cyber Attacks in First 3 Months of 2020

India Witnessed a 37% increase in Cyber Attacks in First 3 Months of 2020


New Delhi: India has noticed a 37 percent rise in cyberattacks in the first three months of 2020, as compared to the fourth quarter (Q4) of last year, a new report showed on Saturday.

The KSN (Kaspersky Security Network) report revealed that its products blocked and detected 52,820,874 local cyber threats in India in the middle of January to March this year.

The data as well reveals that India now ranks 27th worldwide in the number of web-threats noticed by the company in Q1 2020 as measured to when it ranked on the 32nd position worldwide in Q4 2019.

“There has been a significant rise in the number of attacks in Q1 of 2020 that may continue to rise further in Q2 also, particularly in the present scenario where we notice a rise in cybercriminal activities,  mainly in the Asia Pacific region,” said Saurabh Sharma, Senior Security Researcher, GReAT Asia Pacific at Kaspersky.

The number of local threats in India in the first three months in 2020 reveals how frequently users are attacked by malware spread by CDs and DVDs, removable USB drives, and other “offline” methods. Security against such attacks not only needs an antivirus solution capable of handling infected objects but also a firewall, anti-rootkit functionality, and control over removable devices.

As stated by the firm, 40,700,057 of local threats noticed in Q4 2019. India also ranks 11th globally in the number of attacks resulted from servers that were hosted in the country, which accounts for 2,299,682 incidents in the first three months of 2020 as compared to 854,782 incidents detected in Q4 of 2019, said the report.

"We have seen that smartphone users are more targeted due to massive usage and digitalization," Sharma said. "Threats such as data leakage, connectivity to insecure Wi-Fi networks, spyware, phishing attacks, applications with poor encryption (also called broken cryptography) are some of the common mobile threats that Android users use."

"To reduce major risks such as targeted ransomware attacks, data breaches, large scale (distributed denial-of-service) DDoS attacks, businesses will need to properly allocate their budgets to build a stronger security infrastructure," said Dipesh Kaura, General Manager, South Asia, Kaspersky.

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