Reportedly almost one in three netizens in india encounter cyber attacks, with users from Chennai more vulnerable to these attacks among users in the metros, a new study said on Wednesday. Meanwhile the study conducted by K7 Computing a city based cyber security major, tracks all critical components like Enterprise, mobile, Mac, Windows and IoT, covering 20 Indian cities that include metros, tier-1 and tier-2 regions.
Accordingly among tier-1 cities, Chennai has recorded the highest percentile of cyber attacks with 48% from April 2019-June 2019 followed by kolkata with 41% during the same period. delhi has registered the lowest percentile of cyber attacks with 28%. Furthermore as per the report, cyber risk exposure steadily rises on working days in metros, starting from Monday and records the highest on Friday.
Moreover from April 2019-June 2019, Patna experienced the highest percentile of cyber attacks (48 per cent), closely followed by Guwahati (46%) and Lucknow (45%), while Thiruvananthapuram stood safest among others at 35% and the study also found that ransomware and file less attack continued to grow faster in the country.
