Ransomware attacks rose by 31% amid pandemic: Report
Express News Service CHENNAI: There has been a 31 per cent increase in ransomware attacks — which involve malware that encrypt files and hold the owner to ransom to access their data — in India amid the pandemic in 2020, according to a report by Chennai-based Cyber Security Works (CSW), a leader in Attack Surface Management (ASM) and an official CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), along with RiskSense. According to the report, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Apollo Tyres, India Bulls, and Delhi Medical Council were victims of ransomware attacks in the past year, and their d...
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