Cyber Security Privacy Foundation
Pte. Ltd, a Consulting, Services and Training Company based in Singapore
had released a chart on Saturday (April 30) showing how much amount of each
sector hit by ransomware in India.
Ransomware is a malware which restricts access to the infected computer system
in some way, and demands ransom from
the user to remove the restriction.
The consulting company which has
its non profit branch operating in India took into account the dataset of 60
companies all over India and found that banking and Insurance sectors were the
worst hit by ransomware by 30 percent each.
Pharmacy sector stands second with
20 percent of attacks and the least affected is manufacturing sector among
other sectors with 10 percent attacks each.
The database all showed that
maximum numbers of computing devices were hit by the attacks in insurance
sector which stood at 10 devices while eight devices of banking sector and
three of pharmacy firms were affected by ransomware attacks.
The companies taken as a sample had
all the standard defenses including antivirus, firewall and other measures
still the ransomware succeeded in harming the sectors.