Indian Cyber Threat Report 2023: Key Findings

GS Paper III Internal security

Context: The India cyber threat report 2023 is released by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and Quick heal.

About Indian Cyber Threat Report 2023

cyber threat report 2023

Purpose: To empower businesses to fortify their cybersecurity posture by presenting a thorough analysis of cyber threats in the Indian landscape, drawing on a wealth of data, statistics, and telemetry from approximately 8.5 million endpoints.

Total Detections: Over 400 million detections across approximately 8.5 million Endpoints.
Detection Rate: Averaging 761 detections per minute.
Behaviour-Based Detections: Approximately 49 million detections(12.5%) stem from behaviour-based analysis.
Ransomware incident ratio: 1 per 650 detections
Malware incident ratio: 1 per 38,000 detections ·
Cryptojacking (Emerging Threat) It is a type of cybercrime that involves the unauthorized use of people’s devices (computers, smartphones, tablets, or even servers) by cybercriminals to mine for cryptocurrency.
A significant increase in Adware and Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs).

Must Read: NCRB Data On Cyber Crime In India

About Data Security Council of India (DSCI)

It is a premier industry body on data protection in India, setup by NASSCOM.
It is committed to making cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices, standards and initiatives in cyber security and privacy.

News source: Business Standard