According to Microsoft’s new Cyber Signals report, this year India stands amongst the top three countries of the world with the greatest number of malware infections for IoT or Internet of Things devices. The other two countries are the US and China. It was found by the Microsoft researchers that 38 percent of it comes from China itself when the company analysed 2022 data threat across countries. 18 percent of the malware was observed in the US and it is the second most infected country. On Wednesday, it was reported by the officials that the attacks are suspected to originate from Hong Kong and China.
The report mentioned that “Microsoft researchers found that India is amongst the top 3 countries originating IoT malware infection in 2022. Therefore, the cyberthreat landscape is real and security is the need of the hour.” The report also mentioned that “The spike in attackers’ presence in these environments and networks is fuelled by the convergence and interconnectivity many organisations have adopted over the past few years.”
