India ranked second in attacks by threat actors in 2024, shows data

Threat actors traded over 534 terabytes (TB) of data across industries and countries globally in 2024. India ranked second after the US, recording 95 incidents that impacted as many companies, according to the cyber intelligence platform CloudSEK.

 

A threat actor can be a person/organisation that targets firms or governments to damage security, extract data, and affect a firm’s resources. Motivations may include financial gains arising from data leakage and sale, and espionage, among others.

 

Globally, manufacturing, construction and real estate, healthcare, tech and telecom, and financial services were the top affected sectors. On the dark web, threat actors have been