India alone accounted for 5.81% of the global virus count deducted in the previous quarter
Malware Attack: According to the latest report released on Monday, India’s virus count skyrocketed to 37,697,022 in Q4 of 2022 with a daily average of over 4,18,000 cases. As per the cybersecurity company Fortinet, India alone accounted for 5.81 percent of the global virus count deducted in the previous quarter.
“In the second half of 2022, drive-by compromise topped the list across India as the most common malware delivery approach. This method involves attackers gaining access to victims’ systems while browsing online and getting them to download malicious payloads,” said Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC, and Southeast Asia Fortinet.
“To protect against these advanced persistent cybercrime tactics, organizations need to focus on enabling machine learning-driven coordinated and actionable threat intelligence in real-time across all security devices to detect suspicious actions and initiate coordinated mitigation across the extended attack surface,” he added.
Moreover, the report said that bad actors constantly seek to maximize their existing investments and knowledge in attack efforts.
Botnet and malware code reuse are efficient, cost-effective ways for criminals to build upon successful attack vectors while making iterative changes, and fine-tuning their attacks to sidestep detection.
The total number of Botnets in India was 204,554,825, over 2.2 million Bots every day in Q4 2022. The report mentioned that India accounted for 4.72 percent of the Botnets deducted globally in the last quarter.
Mirai and Gh0st RAT bots continue to be popular in India, yet out of the top five, only RotaJakiro is from the current decade.
The total exploit count in India was 27,328,691,045 in the previous quarter, which is over 303 million exploits deducted daily.
The exploits targeting Indian networks were 4.35 percent of the total global exploits.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Wonder how much of this malaware in India and the world is created by Indians!
4.35% only…so very safe !! When 0.0001% can lead to power blackouts & loss of patients health data (AIIMS-Delhi).