Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Chandigarh have emerged as the top ‘malicious’ cities in 2014.
“Malware trend indicates that Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Chennai have emerged as the focal point of the cyber attackers,” Pekka Usva, Vice-President (Corporate Security) of F-Secure, has said.
Despite the decline of Downadup/Conficker, infections like Sality, Ramnit and Virtob have continue to mark their presence in the Indian threat landscape over the period of last 3 years.
The Internet security solutions firm has released ‘The state of Internet in India 2014. The report shows that most of the infections are related botnets. “Hackers manage to own your PC’s and use them for spamming, DDoS (Denial of Service (DoS) attack) or other malicious activity to make substantial amount of money,” the report said.
Banking-related malware has been consistently topping the chart in India. The ‘Ramnit’ malware steals bank user names and passwords and it mostly spreads through USB removable drives. Furthermore, PC’s in India are moving away from Windows XP. What was also observed was the decline in Downadup/Conficker infection over the past 3 years in India.