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TRENDING STORY

and Hyderabad (74%), of attacks, as per an IBM
were most impacted report.
by ransomware. “In India, we have
Organizations Globally, the most seen both enterprises,
should think of affected sectors of as well as government
preventing attacks ransomwarehave been sectors coming under
before they happen, and the manufacturing attacks. Even media
not just detect them. A industry, followed organizations like
prevention-first strategy is by the professional the PTI and National
one of the most effective services sector which Highway Authority of
ways to avoid financially SuNDar
devastating data BalaSuBramaNIaN has experienced India have been some
breach Managing Director, 17% of ransomware of the big names that
India and SAARC attacks. Government have been attacked,”
Region, Check Point organizations follow states, Rajesh Thadhani,
Software Technologies in third place at 13% Executive Director –
the main incentive of
the hackers is money,
and sometimes Check Point Software
disruption or sabotage. Technologies.
Always struggling to Shift to
make organizations pay The Most Impacted remote working
the ransom, hackers Regions and Sectors has contributed to
find new extortion in 2020 the increase of cyber-
tactics to leave no According to attacks. As more devices
escape from answering Sophos global survey, are connecting remotely and
their demands,” organizations in Delhi outside the secured corporate
points out Sundar (85%) followed by rajeSh ThaDhaNI network, it is critical to
Balasubramanian, Bangalore (83%), Executive Director – understand how the data
is being handled
Managing Director, India Kolkata (81%), Mumbai Digital Transformation
and SAARC Region, (81%), Chennai (79%), & Services – Crayon

Digital Transformation
& Services – Crayon
Software Experts India.
Another development
has been witnessed
in the form of cyber
attackers shifting
their aim towards the
enterprise market, thus
exploiting the lack of
cybersecurity awareness
amongst start-ups and
SMEs.
A Kaspersky research
found that of all the
encryption families,
WannaCry was the most

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