Ransomware emerged as top cyber threat in India: Report
The report surveyed nearly 3,000 IT and security professionals in 18 countries across 37 industries.
The report surveyed nearly 3,000 IT and security professionals in 18 countries across 37 industries.
The global ransomware attacks are at an all-time high, and the US is the primary target, a new report has said.
A deadly malware named Akira, which mostly targets Windows and Linux systems, is the biggest looming threat.
Information security company, CyberArk, on Sunday said that more than 91 per cent of the Indian organisations experienced ransomware attacks in 2022 while 55 per cent of the affected organisations reported paying up twice or more to allow recovery, signalling that they were likely victims of double extortion campaigns.
On a global scale, the survey also showed that when organisations paid a ransom to get their data decrypted, they ended up additionally doubling their recovery costs (US$750,000 in recovery costs versus US$375,000 for organisations that used backups to get data back).
The Bengaluru Police has reported that out of 20,000 FIRs registered between January 2019 and June 2019, 25% were related to Cyber Crimes.
In a new report, security software firm Sophos claims to have tracked 96 samples of Matrix ransomware in the wild
Survey by security software and hardware company Sofos shows the extent to which Indian businesses are at a risk of repeated ransomware attacks
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India has become the worst-hit country in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region and the seventh most affected nation…