San Francisco: India has joined the list of countries like Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal which have highest rate of attempted malware attacks, Microsoft Corporation has said.
According to a report by the software giant, almost half of the attacks originate in Asia and one-fifth from Latin America.
Countries like Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, on the other hand, are least prone to attacks by malwares.
“We look at north of 10 million attacks on identities every day,” said Microsoft manager Alex Weinert.
There are millions of malwares which occurs when the attackers have valid credentials, which means that the attackers know user’s id and password, said Microsoft.
Also, India is not only home to one of the largest smartphone userbase, but also the second most affected in terms of Android malware with close to one million devices being infected in 2015, a report by Cheetah Mobile Security said.
The report further states that more than 60 percent of viruses are related to mobile payment. These viruses have been luring customers to enter their banking credentials including bank account and ID information in guise of normal payment pages.
In 2015, over 800,000 Android users were affected by malicious promotion malwares, while mobile payment viruses caused information losses to more than 300,000 users.
Privacy theft Trojan is a common one amongst these malware, which hides in mobile users to steal text messages, contact information, location and personal photos. Root Trojans, which take full control of the device and are very tough to remove, also grew in 2015.
