Sep 26, 2023, 09:41 PM IST.
Top 10 Indian Cybercrime Hotspots. Bharatpur, Rajasthan.
The top 10 contributors account for around 80% of reported cybercrime incidences in India. Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Nuh, Haryana. Deoghar, Jharkand. Jamtara, Jharkand. Gurugram, Haryana. Alwar, Rajasthan..
Bharatpur, Rajasthan
The top 10 contributors account for around 80% of reported cybercrime incidences in India.
Among them, Bharatpur in northern state of Rajasthan tops the list with 18%..
Bulk phishing, smishing, and business e-mail compromise (BEC) are the most common types.
In 2022, 85 percent of the surveyed worldwide organizations reported encountering bulk phishing attacks, while roughly three in four were targeted by smishing scams..
Malware is the most common type of cyberattack, mostly because this term encompasses many subsets such as ransomware, trojans, spyware, viruses, worms, keyloggers, bots, cryptojacking, and any other type of malware attack that leverages software in a malicious way..
Some of the bigger cyber attacks of the year even had damaging real-world implications, which served to bring cyber crime mainstream attention, and to the top of national security agendas, particularly in the US and UK.
Regrettably, cyberattacks and breaches are big business – bad actors with an endless stream of nefarious motives populate the internet, ready to pounce on insecure data and immature security practices.
There’s no shortage of attacks and breaches, and that can make it hard to manage if you like to keep up with the latest security news.
Computing giant Microsoft is no stranger to cyberattacks, and on March 20th 2022 the firm was targeted by a hacking collective called Lapsus$.
The group posted a screenshot on Telegram to indicate that they’d managed to hack Microsoft and, in the process, they’d compromised Cortana, Bing, and several other products.
The hackers made off with some m.
You wouldn’t think anyone would want to attack the Red Cross, but that’s what happened in January 2022.
An attack on a third-party contractor saw more than half a million records compromised– including documents that the Red Cross classed as “highly vulnerable”.
Ultimately, thousands of people had their sensitive data stolen, and most of the victim.
Major cyber crime cases over the years.
A Russian’s hacking of a U.S. bank in 1994 may have been the first online bank robbery.
Thieves tracked keystrokes on two million infected computers to steal users' information.
Spanning 20 countries, Operation Shrouded Horizon has dismantled an online criminal forum.
For example, K-12 schools took a brunt of the hit, and new lows were reached like the exfiltration of student data.
The list of top cyber attacks from 2020 include:
Season of American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
