India is among the top 10
countries facing cyber-attacks. These incidents have increased manifold during the lockdown period — almost three times increase in cases of
phishing, spamming and scanning of ICT systems, particularly of critical information infrastructure.There is significant increase in incidents relating to hacking, injecting
malware through spam mails and other forms of exploiting vulnerabilities. There was an almost 56% rise in malicious traffic on internet during the lockdown period also on account of the culture of work from home. This might be just the beginning which suggests even more increased interest in exploiting
cyber breaches.A news daily too reported massive “denial of service” attacks on financial institution in the country which, however, could not be verified. The border stand-off has further increased worries about enhanced cyber attacks from China and its close allies. Several advisories have been published by the Indian Computer Emergency Team and media about possibilities of cyber-attacks from China, though not much malicious activity has been observed.Many cyber hackers — state, non-state, professional, freelancer’s groups, so-called “anonymous groups” — operate worldwide and conduct attacks internationally. Approximately more than one third of all cyber-attacks worldwide are launched from China. They have one of the largest military groups of cyber experts in the world. Countries like North Korea and Pakistan are also very active on their own and work in close collaboration with the Chinese. These countries have been accused of perpetrating state-sponsored attacks for a variety of purposes.Recently, the Australian Prime Minister expressed concerns over Chinese cyber attacks. About 38% of Advance Persistent Threat Vectors like
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