India ranks 6th in terms of users hit by mobile malware in Q2: Report
Ranked sixth, India was one of the top 10 countries with the
largest share of users attacked by mobile malware in the
second quarter of this year, said a new report by cybersecurity company
Kaspersky on Wednesday.
The
top three countries hit by mobile malware attacks
remained unchanged from the previous quarter -- Iran followed by Algeria and
Bangladesh.
The
report revealed a drastic increase in the number of mobile malware threats
detected in the second quarter of the year when compared to Q1.
In
Q2, Kaspersky detected 1,245,894 malicious installers, an increase of 93,232
over the previous quarter.
"As
the mobile and Internet consumption goes up, especially in countries like India
and other South Asian regions, it can be predicted that cybercriminals too
would shift their focus towards increasing threat actors for smartphones to
increase their financial gains," Dipesh Kaura, General Manager for South
Asia, Kaspersky, said in a statement.
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