Indian entities facing 3 times more cyberattack than global avg: Check Point

Indian organisations have faced over three times more cyberattack than the global average, with cryptocurrency mining malware impacting most of the entities, according to a research.
Most of the attacks have come on Indian companies via online medium, Israel-based firm Check Point Software Technologies said in its report for 2019.
“An organization in India is being attacked on average 1,565 times per week in the last 6 months, compared to 474 attacks per organization globally. 93 per cent of the malicious files in India were delivered via the Web, compared to 35 per cent of malicious files globally,” the report said.
The report cited cyber attack on Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) by a malware designed for data extraction as one of the major attacks in India.
“The malware, linked by experts to the North-Korean group Lazarus, infected a computer in the plants external network, rather than the operational one,” the report said.
It said that on May 19, an “unprotected MongoDB …