Survey: 1 Cyber crime for every 10 Mins

New Delhi, July 23: As we know that, The technology has improved as well as cyber crimes also.In a recent survey has unveiled that the rate of cyber crime has increased in 2017, as one case of cyber crime was reported in every 10 minutes in the first six months.

According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), 27,482 cases of cyber crime were reported from January to June. This is higher than 2016 when a cyber crime was reported in every 12 minutes, added the report.

Analysis of data from 2013 - 2016 shows that network scanning and probing, which is seen as the first step to detect vulnerabilities in systems so that sensitive data can be stolen, constituted 6.7% of all cases while virus or malware attack accounted for 17.2%, added the report.



The cybercrime includes global ransomware attacks that hit hundreds of systems, to phishing and scanning rackets. The report said while India has been dealing with crimes such as phishing and defacement, ransomware attacks have come as a surprise.

Other crimes in the cyberspace include phishing, scanning or probing, site intrusions, defacements, virus or malicious code, ransomware and denial-of-service attacks.

India has seen a total of 1.71 lakh cases of cybercrime in the past three-and-a-half years and the CERT claims that the number is likely to cross 50,000 by December.