Antivirus report of 2014!
‘The state of Internet in India’ Report affirm the rise of malware infections in India and states Delhi as the most infected city in 2014. According to a report by F-Secure Labs’, the top malware infection in India is still Botnet related. Hackers manage to own your PC’s and use them for spamming, other malicious activity to make substantial amount of money, DDOS (Type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack).
The report also states that banking related malware are being constantly being increasing. The ‘Ramnit’ malware steals bank user names and passwords. The Ramnit is mostly spread through USB pen drives. Furthermore, PC’s in India are moving away from Windows XP. What was also observed was the decline in Downadup/Conficker infection over the past 3 years in India.
Sality, Ramnit, Trogan.LNK.Gen, Trojan.Script and Virtob are the top 5 malicious malware; and the top malicious cities in 2014 are Delhi (20%), Hyderabad (9%), Chennai (9%) and Chandigarh (7%).
On the mobile platform, premium rate SMS is still the No.1 reason behind a high number of SMS-related malware in the Android platform in India. This is in line with what the CERT-In (Computer Emergency Response Team of India) found in December of 2014.
The mobile malwares are capable of collecting API key, Application ID, Carrier, Device manufacturer, Device model, GPS location, International Mobile, Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, Network operator, Package name and SDK version from your device. The top mobile infected cities in 2014 are Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Chennai and Gurgaon.
Pekka Usva, VP, Corporate Security, F-Secure, commenting during a press meets to announce these findings, said,
[notification type=”notification_info” ]“Malware trends and the state of mobile threat landscape places cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Hyderabad and Chennai straight as the focal point of the attackers. Despite the decline of Downadup/Conficker, infections like Sality, Ramnit and Virtob have continue to mark their presence in the Indian threat landscape over the period of last 3 years. 2014 has highlighted many threats and F-Secure has timely highlighted them to keep its existing and prospective users safe. We will continue with our constant effort to secure you and ensure you switch on freedome.”[/notification]
