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Internet Security Threat Report

April 11 , 2018 2423 days 1179 0
  • According to the recently released Internet Security Threat Report, India emerged as third most vulnerable country in terms of risk of cyber threats, such as malware, spam and ransomware in 2017.
  • The report was published by security solutions provider Symantec and India has moved up by one place over previous year.
  • United States (with 26.61% global threats) was most vulnerable country to such cyber-attacks, followed by China (10.95%) in 2017.
  • In India, 5.09% of global threats were detected, slightly less than 5.11% in 2016.
  • India continues to be second most impacted by spam and bot’s attacks, third most impacted by network attacks, and fourth most impacted by ransomware.
  • The global threat ranking of countries was based on 8 metrics viz. malware, spam, bots, phishing, network attacks, web attacks, ransomware and crypto miners.

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