Ransomware In India

While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 percent) and Germany (52 percent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, in...

India saw a huge surge in ransomware and IoT cyber attacks in the first half of 2023, as criminals shifted to stealthier means of malicious activities, according to a report by SonicWall.

A rise in cyberattacks poses a vital risk to India’s economic ambitions, with industries from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals becoming more vulnerable as they digitise operations, according to Google Cloud. Attacks have spiked significantly in the past six months, said Amit Pradhan, India consulting leader for the cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

India experienced a 31 per cent surge in malware attacks in 2022, which should prompt companies to intensify their efforts in safeguarding themselves against cyberattacks, said a SonicWall report.

Daam, a new Android virus that can access sensitive information such as call logs, contacts, history — and even access a device's cameras — is spreading, according to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. CERT-In says the Daam Android malware can also "bypass anti-virus programs and deploy ransomware on the targeted devices" and is distr...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has stated in a latest advisory that this Internet spread ransomware sneaks in through phishing emails, malicious downloads, abusing RDP (remote desktop protocol) and other forms of social engineering.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Sunday revealed in a filing that the firm would see a revenue drop in a few of its businesses and incur some expenses due to an "IT security incident" in March. The drugmaker's IT systems were affected by a breach of certain file systems and theft of some company and personal data, while a ransomware group has claim...

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. expects revenue to fall as measures taken by India's top drugmaker to contain an information technology security breach in early March impacted operations.

A ransomware attack that hit ION Trading UK could take days to fix, leaving scores of brokers unable to process derivatives trades, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ION Group, the financial data firm's parent company, said in a statement on its website that the attack began on Tuesday.

The AIIMS Delhi ransomware attack is currently being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to the Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi allegedly faced a cyberattack on November 23, paralysing its online services for nearly two weeks.

The online registration of new patients visiting the OPD at the AIIMS, Delhi has resumed, while the online appointment system is still not working and laboratory services are operating in manual mode, official sources said on Tuesday.

ICMR, or the Indian Council of Medical Research, was recently subjected to over 6,000 hacking attempts in a day. According to a government official, hackers that appear to based in Hong Kong tried to attack the ICMR website on November 30, but their attempts were foiled by the NIC firewall.

Delhi's premier All India Institute of medical Sciences might have been subject to a ransomware attack, the hospital has said. All sections of the hospital have been functioning manually since 7 in the morning as the servers crashed.

A new ransomware has been detected in India that makes victims donate new clothes to homeless, feed kids in branded pizza outlets, and provide financial help to anyone who needs urgent medical attention but cannot afford it, according to digital risk monitoring firm Cloudsek.

A report by research firm Sopho reveals some alarming details about a spike in ransomware attacks among Indian firms. As per the report, more than 78 percent of Indian organisations suffered ransomware attacks last year, up from 68 percent in 2020. The average ransom paid by the Indian companies was $1,198,475.

While major economies like the US and the UK witnessed a decline in ransomware attacks, India (up 133 percent) and Germany (52 percent) are among the countries that saw a huge surge in such attacks, the 2023 SonicWall Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report for the January-June period stated. At the global level, a variety of other attacks have trended up, in...

India saw a huge surge in ransomware and IoT cyber attacks in the first half of 2023, as criminals shifted to stealthier means of malicious activities, according to a report by SonicWall.

A rise in cyberattacks poses a vital risk to India’s economic ambitions, with industries from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals becoming more vulnerable as they digitise operations, according to Google Cloud. Attacks have spiked significantly in the past six months, said Amit Pradhan, India consulting leader for the cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

India experienced a 31 per cent surge in malware attacks in 2022, which should prompt companies to intensify their efforts in safeguarding themselves against cyberattacks, said a SonicWall report.

Daam, a new Android virus that can access sensitive information such as call logs, contacts, history — and even access a device's cameras — is spreading, according to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. CERT-In says the Daam Android malware can also "bypass anti-virus programs and deploy ransomware on the targeted devices" and is distr...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In has stated in a latest advisory that this Internet spread ransomware sneaks in through phishing emails, malicious downloads, abusing RDP (remote desktop protocol) and other forms of social engineering.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries on Sunday revealed in a filing that the firm would see a revenue drop in a few of its businesses and incur some expenses due to an "IT security incident" in March. The drugmaker's IT systems were affected by a breach of certain file systems and theft of some company and personal data, while a ransomware group has claim...

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. expects revenue to fall as measures taken by India's top drugmaker to contain an information technology security breach in early March impacted operations.

A ransomware attack that hit ION Trading UK could take days to fix, leaving scores of brokers unable to process derivatives trades, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. ION Group, the financial data firm's parent company, said in a statement on its website that the attack began on Tuesday.

The AIIMS Delhi ransomware attack is currently being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to the Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi allegedly faced a cyberattack on November 23, paralysing its online services for nearly two weeks.

The online registration of new patients visiting the OPD at the AIIMS, Delhi has resumed, while the online appointment system is still not working and laboratory services are operating in manual mode, official sources said on Tuesday.

ICMR, or the Indian Council of Medical Research, was recently subjected to over 6,000 hacking attempts in a day. According to a government official, hackers that appear to based in Hong Kong tried to attack the ICMR website on November 30, but their attempts were foiled by the NIC firewall.

Delhi's premier All India Institute of medical Sciences might have been subject to a ransomware attack, the hospital has said. All sections of the hospital have been functioning manually since 7 in the morning as the servers crashed.

A new ransomware has been detected in India that makes victims donate new clothes to homeless, feed kids in branded pizza outlets, and provide financial help to anyone who needs urgent medical attention but cannot afford it, according to digital risk monitoring firm Cloudsek.

A report by research firm Sopho reveals some alarming details about a spike in ransomware attacks among Indian firms. As per the report, more than 78 percent of Indian organisations suffered ransomware attacks last year, up from 68 percent in 2020. The average ransom paid by the Indian companies was $1,198,475.