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From Air India to Facebook, here're top 10 cyberattacks in India

From April 2020, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020

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The total number of attacks recorded in India between January and February 2021 was around 15 million.

Shivani Shinde
A major cybersecurity attack targeting Air India’s passenger service system has exposed the personal information of lakhs of passengers. With data breaches continuing to rise across the globe, Indian users data is increasingly being breached by cyber criminals.

According to a recent study by Infosys-Interbrand, the potential risk in brand value of data breach to the world’s 100 most valuable brands could amount to as much as $223 billion. According to Kaspersky’s telemetry, the numbers of Brute-force attacks against remote desktop protocol in India went from 1.3 million in February 2020 to 3.3 million in March 2020.

From April 2020, monthly attacks