In this rapidly growing cybersecurity threat, everyone ought to protect him/herself from these threats. “1,946,181,599 total number of records containing personal and other sensitive data that have been in compromised between Jan. 1, 2017, and March 20, 2018” according to Techbeacon. India ranked, 3rd in the list of countries where the highest number of cyber threats, ransomware attacks were detected.
Malware URL on Acceleration:
Since last month threat assessment, Malware URL attack made its space halfway to executable and accelerating attack towards victim’s devices. At a certain time of the week, it has exceeded executable attacks. According to the eScan research team in the last week itself, 16lacs+ attacks are carried through across India. eScan behest users to secure your data and device from any such attacks, which are carried to exploit your data.
Ransomware Stats:
Now, ransomware too raked-up its attack to exploit business data. According to FBI, there are more than 4000+ ransomware attacks every day. eScan found 12000+ ransomware attacks only in the last week and yesterday been the highest ransomware attacks targeted to exploit victim’s data.
Ransomware Daily Stats
Ransomware’s hourly attack watched over last week urges more and more need of strong security. As attackers are on the invention to seek new ways to exploit and mine-data from businesses, eScan carefully monitors the behavior of attackers and ransomware threats to mitigate through PBAE technology.
Ransomware Hourly Stats
Solution:
- Keep your antivirus software updated constantly, this will protect you from all types of threats from the network
- Make sure you download apps and updates from Google play store or official websites.
- Download apps from the trusted site and do check the user ratings on it before you download
- Make sure all the basic softer on your system is up-to-date like Oracle, Java, and Adobe.
- Follow the 3-D security policy in organizations, Understand Requirements to decide on a suitable security policy, train your staff on the policy and finally implement the policy.
- Make sure you either implement MailScan at gateway level or enable Mail Anti-virus on the endpoint in order to block extensions such as *.EXE, *.SCR, *.JS, *.VBE etc. These attachments would infect your system.
- Check emails only if trust the source.
- eScanAV Anti-Virus Toolkit (MWAV) is a FREE utility that enables you to scan and clean Viruses, Spyware, Adware and any other Malware that may have infected your computer.
- Regularly back up all your important files.
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