There are 1,852 cyber attacks every minute in India, Delhi-Mumbai top

New Delhi, September 14, 2019, Saturday

Everyone in the country is a part of the digital revolution. But as the country advances in the digital arena, the greater risk of cyber-attacks has increased. Not only India, the risk of cyber-attacks worldwide is increasing day by day. Even if sitting in another country, your mobile, computer, laptop are hacked and millions are cheated. You may be surprised to know that 1852 cyber-attacks occur every minute of the day. The target is 4 major cities in the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Calcutta. Banking and financial companies face thousands of cyber attacks daily.

In India, many applications like Bhima, Google Pay, PhonePay and Paytm (Paytm) are used for financial transactions. In this case, the biggest risk of cyber-attacks is on the banks. According to the annual Threat Report of Cyber ​​Security Research in 2019, there were around two million cyber attacks worldwide in 2018 and caused a loss of Rs 3,222 billion.

Such an attack for Gurugram resident DK Joshi and his family has become one of the worst experiences of his life. A phone call was made on July 23 and hackers robbed half of their lives. DK Joshi is a retired person who works as a consultant for Hydro Power for Nepal. In his bank account, Rs 5 lakh was withdrawn in a jolt. On July 20, he received a message to update Paytm's KYC Detail. He ignored this message for 3 days. But on 23rd, he received a call in which the caller called himself a probationary officer of Paytm and asked him to update the Paytm. On the phone, he asked for the date of birth, found out what the model of the phone was and then asked to download Quick Support to the phone. After this download he made KYC. After doing so Joshi's control of the phone reached the hackers. His phone was hacked and all OTPs reached the caller with remote access. On the same day, more than 5 lakhs were withdrawn from DK Joshi's account.

The money was transferred from Joshi's account to a different bank account. Joshi said that when he became aware of the whole incident, he immediately went to ICICI Bank and blocked the account. At 8.40 am on July 24, a message came from SBI Bank that was linked to UPID and first 34000 and then 26000 amount went to the account with no OTP. Thereafter Rs 20,000, 19,999 and Rs 10,000 were withdrawn from the Bank of Baroda. Joshi lodged a complaint with Commissioner Faridabad in the case when the case reached the Cyber ​​Cell for investigation. On July 26, Rs.100,000 lakh was transferred from his account.

This phenomenon has become commonplace at present. Millions of Indians across the country fall into the trap of cyber-attacks. The cyber criminals and fraudsters take advantage of the flaws in technical matters. Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata are at the forefront of such attics.

2019 Threat Report of Indian Cyber ​​Security Research

- Windows Devices Last year 9,733 thousand cyber attacks were reported.

- The world has suffered a loss of Rs 3,222 billion due to cyber-attacks

- The hackers' first choice is the bank

- This means that 1,852 Windows devices were affected by cyber-attacks every minute of the year.

- Cyber ​​attack in India was done by Trojan virus

- It has the second standalone and third place infectors, which led to cyber attacks in India in 2019.

- Ransomware targets one computer every 14 minutes. Hackers make the most of attacks with ransomware. The financial sector has lost 60% of its limelight due to this attack.

- Ransomware Attack is the Cyber ​​Attacker's first choice and in 2018 the attacks have caused $ 6 billion in damage worldwide. An Internet Society Online Trust Alliance report estimates that by 2021, a ransomware attack could cause $ 20 billion in damage.

- 6 out of 10 Cyber ​​Attack tools belong to Trojan virus.

- Android phones face cyber attack at least every three minutes.