1.4 lakh hacking attempts every hour!

ISSUE 40
30 / 04 / 2019

1.4 lakh hacking attempts every hour!

India reported about 1.4 lakh account takeover login attempts every hour in 2018 a latest cyber security report has revealed. After the US, India was the second most preferred target destination, recording more than 120.8 crore ATOs in just one year.

Each attack represented an attempt made either by a person or computer to log in to an account with a stolen or generated username and password. The vast majority of these attacks were performed by botnets as per reports. Akamai recorded approximately 30 billion credential stuffing—breaching of databases—attacks in 2018.

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/cyber-threat-india-witnessed-1-4-lakh-account-hacking-attempts-every-hour-in-2018/69024769

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