The attacks originated in European countries such as Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia predominantly and were aimed at New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru in India.
As of June 30, 2019, over 15% of smart cities project, 14 % of financial services and and 14 % of utilities that are part of various sectors in India came under cyber security attack, as per Subex, a digital trust solution provider for telcos in India. According to it, this is a result of increasing interest of hackers in critical infrastructures in the country, especially on Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. IoT deployments provide a series of entry points for hackers to enter into a network, that require active security and monitoring. These attacks have seen 22% increase from the previous quarter.
The attacks originated in European countries such as Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia predominantly and were aimed at New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru in India. Mexico and Brazil fall next in the order of top origins of malware attacks. Malwares such as Backdoor, Botnet and Password stealers were the common malware categories and their variants like Mirai, Torii and ADB. Miner were common variants. According to experts in the industry, these could cause severe downtime if left unchecked and the loss could be in several millions of dollars.
As per the Subex report, these attacks had strong geo-political influence, showing a trend that’s increasingly pointing towards electronic warfare. These attacks were also of reconnaissance type, mostly aimed at getting strategic data.
“India was the most attacked nation in the IoT space last quarter. These attacks were aimed at integrity violation with malicious code injection and were brute force attacks,” says P Vinod Kumar, CEO, Subex.
Source: Financial Express
