India witnesses one cyber crime per 10 minutes: 2017

With increasing number of people in India going online every year, the risk of cybercrime hovers above. The rise of smaller organizations and their less or no protection of data also leads to maximum cases of security breach.

In the first six months of 2017, India saw one incident of cybercrime per 10 minutes. These include ransomware attacks to minor phishing rackets. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team reported 27,482 cases between January and June.

Phishing, scanning, probing, viruses, defacements, site intrusions and denial-of-service were the most reported incidents. Ransomware attacks are gaining pace in India.

1.71L crimes have been reported in the last 3.5 years.

 

The RBI has also issued warnings about bitcoins, the preferred mode of payment for attackers.

Here is a list of the most remembered security breaches in India last year:

  • Mirai botnet malware: A botnet malware named Mirai took over the Internet targeting home router users and other IoT based devices. The malware affected 2.5 million IoT devices; it’s not clear how many systems were affected in India. CERT—In had also issued an advisory regarding the attack back in October 2016.

 

  • WannaCry: Ransomware WannaCry swept the world in May. CERT-In immediately put out an advisory notice. Few instances of the ransomware were reported to have hit banks in India, and some businesses in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat as well during the first wave of the attack. Railwaire users were also most affected by the ransomware.

 

  • Petya: India was also on the top 10 list of countries to be hit by Petya ransomware attacks, with the country faring worst among other Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, cyber security firm Symantec said in a blog postlast month. Globally, India took the 7th spot with less than 20 organisations being affected as per the Symantec’s analysis.

 

 

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Source: infoconglobal

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