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India tops Ransomeware victims list
Posted on: 06/Jun/2016 9:21:07 PM
According to statistics presented by Kaspersky Lab, India is among the top 5 countries that are victims of Ransomware. Ransomware forces people to pay a ransom through certain online payment methods in exchange for access to their systems, or to retrieve their data.
Says a senior executive at Kaspersky, Ransomware attacks are high in India and it is one the top five countries that has most infections.
India tops the list of countries that were attacked by Teslacrypt ransomware in March-May 2016. It is also ranked fourth in the list of countries that was attacked during the same period by Locky ransomware.
Lucky was released in the middle of February this year, and affects all versions of Windows. According to Kaspersky Labs, Karnataka (36.58 per cent) was the most affected state with ransomware with Tamil Nadu (16.72 per cent) taking the next spot. Next came Maharashtra (10.86 percent), followed by Delhi (10.00 percent), West Bengal (6.70 percent), Uttar Pradesh (5.33 percent), Telangana (4.54 percent), Kerala (3.87 percent), Gujarat (2.35 percent) and Haryana (1.96 percent) at the last spot.
The senior executive said, There are mainly five categories of ransomware that are trotting on the internet today. These include encryption ransomware, master boot record (MBR) ransomware, screen locker, ransomware encrypting web servers and mobile device ransomware, which is majorly affecting Android devices. Popular propagation methods of the infection include infected websites, malvertising (malicious advertising), transfer of affected file via e-mail – such as documents or multimedia files or instant message and social networks. Governments and antivirus service companies should work together to check the cyber attacks.
CoinVault decryptor was built by Kaspersky Lab and the Netherlands’ National High Tech Crime Unit to counter such attacks. Antivirus software is kind of a personal advisor. Unless you have a very technical friend to reverse engineer the threat, you will need these softwares to do that work for you. Antivirus softwares are going to stay because developers will be developing new softwares over time.
Another executive at Kaspersky Labs India said, We have started offering very focussed services to the enterprises, such as solutions for data centres, light agent solution for virtualised environment that does not degrade its speed and performance and solutions for industrial security.
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