Report: India most targeted country with 13.7% of cyberattacks

India is reportedly the highest on the list of targeted countries for cybercrime. It was reported that 13.7 per cent of the cyberattacks are happening in India, and it is followed by the United States with 9.6 per cent, Indonesia with 9.3 per cent and China with 4.5 per cent of attacks noted.

The new report Cyfirma, a cybersecurity firm it was reported that India had been the most targeted country in 2022, as the cyber attacks on government agencies grew by more than doubled.

Later, in the second half of 2022, there were around 95 per cent more cyberattacks witnessed happening at government agencies in the same period witnessed in 2021.

As per the calculations, the number of cyber attacks in India has gone up by more than 100 per cent in 2022 when compared to 2021.

Healthcare is the highly targetted sector by hackers

As per the sources, the Healthcare sector is the most targeted sector by hackers. It is followed by other sectors like the education sector, research, government, and military sectors, the reports claim.

Kumar Ritesh, CEO and founder, Cyfirma said, "India’s growing prominence at the world stage and push from Western economies to favour India over other large countries, a young and tech-savvy population with low cybersec maturity has played a key role in hackers coming after critical assets, government agencies with an intent to breach them and harm India’s strategic interests.”

Also, the report further stated that an organisation in India was attacked 1,866 times per week which is an average in 2022.