Bengaluru suffered highest instances of cyber attacks last year: Study

The study revealed that Window devices, which saw 1,985 attempts per minute last year, were targeted far higher than Android or devices

A study by Quick Heal Technologies, a computer security firm, has revealed that India's IT hub Bengaluru recorded the highest instances of cyber attack attempts in 2018. 

The very fact that Bengaluru houses some of the top corporates as well as IT companies is possibly behind its attractiveness to cyber criminals, Quick Heal co-founder Sanjay Katkar was quoted as saying in a report in The Economic Times. 

Other major cities Mumbai, National Capital Region and Kolkata were also major targets for cyber attacks, with as many as 973 million malware attacks on Windows platforms identified in 2018. This translates to an alarming