Yes India is third best home for hackers after America and brazil this is accorrding to the report published by Symantec’s Internet Security,According to Symantec India is on 13th position in 2008 year but now (rank in 2009) it is in 3rd position so this is very rapid growth in wrong side.
According this report India were the third-highest spam generating country in the world, contributing about 4% to worldwide spam volumes.
In the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, India ranked first in terms of spamming ,worms,viruses and backdoorsand contributed 21% to the regional total. About 6% of the world spam zombies and 28% of the APJ regional spam zombies resided in India. Around 1% of the world phishing hosts and 7% of regional phishing were in India. India ranked first in terms of in the APJ region
The country saw an average of 788 bots per day during 2009. Bots are malwares that turn computers into zombies and there were 62,623 distinct bot-infected computers observed in the country during 2009. Amongst the cities in India with the highest number of bot-infected computers, Mumbai figured at the top with 50% followed by Delhi at 13% and Hyderabad at 7%.
According to Symantec, majority of the malicious codes were propagated through file sharing and executable files. File transfer and common internet file system was the second-most preferred means while the rest was through remotely exploitable vulnerability. Other popular means included file transfer, email attachment, instant messengers, data-bases as well as backdoors.
Source:Economics time
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