A US-based cyber security solutions company, SonicWall with research and development presence in India, has said that the country has witnessed a considerable rise in malware attacks.
Debasish Mukherjee, Country Director, SonicWall (India and SAARC) said, “While the overall global markets saw a reduction in malware attacks, India saw a 25 per cent increase in attacks compared to the previous year.”
The company gathered data from more than 10 lakh security sensors located in over 200 countries. While India registered a decline of 62% reported cases of ransomware volume in the first six months of this year, the company registered 2.4 million encrypted attacks. “This marks a 76% year-to-date increase,” he said.
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The multi-engine SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) cloud sandbox has exposed 1,94,171 new malware variants so far this year. This indicates discovery of 1,078 new variants of malware each day. It also found 74,360 malware variants that were never seen before during the period under survey.