Gujaratis facing a string of malware and botnet attack attempts on its digital networks across offices in major cities and central data servers- both private and of the government.
The attacks are exploiting vulnerabilities in systems and even running email phishing campaigns to penetrate networks.
The Quick Heal Cyber Threat Weather (CTW) report for the first quarter of 2023 puts Surat and Ahmedabad cities on the sixth and eight positions in the country when it comes to malware attack attempts, registering 2.74 million and 1.83 million attempts respectively.
At 8.81 million attack attempts, Gujarat ranks second in the country after Maharashtra, which registered 10.52 million attempts.
Another report called the ‘Spamhaus live botnet threats worldwide map’ showed three botnets that have been active in Gujarat over the last one week — Mirai, Stealrat and Gamut.
Malware is defined as a Software built for the purpose of disrupting or damaging a computer system, and has existed almost as long as the Internet itself.