According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, India is one of leading countries featuring in malicious activities. India is placed at the 5th position just behind USA, China, Brazil and Germany. The report consists of around 100 pages, includes Executive Summary, and Highlights pages.
In India, Mumbai was found to indulge in largest malicious activity, which is just behind Delhi and Hyderabad. India was also found to serve 788 malicious bots (automated entity) per day during 2009, which resulted in 62,623 distinct bot-infected computers.
The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report releases its annual overview including the analysis of internet threat activity, malicious code, spams and phishing. In addition, it suggests preventive measures that you can implement for extra protection and security.
This time the report certainly takes to the conclusion that the emerging countries are a big victim. For example the report clearly clarifies the deep indulge in malicious activity of Brazil and India. The more developed countries like China seems to be much more aware regarding the Internet.
Targeted attacks like the "Aurora" incident, which led to conflict between Google and China stands on top as far as malicious activity is concerned. In addition, there were significant hacking attacks to retrieve personal information. The report claims that about 60% of exposed identities resulted due to hacking attacks. One of it included a single successful attack against a credit card processor.
Among the sites, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader were the major victims of web attacks. There has been a sudden growth in PDF attacks from 11% of attacks in 2008 to 49% in 2009.
Symantec thus wants the highly affected nations to go for policies that are more serious on cyber security.
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