India Sees 18% Increase in Weekly Cyber Attacks in Q1 2023: Report

In India, the number of weekly cyber attacks increased by 18 percent in the first quarter of 2023, with each organization facing an average of 2,108 attacks per week, a new report released on Friday showed.

According to Check Point Research (CPR), global weekly cyber attacks increased 7 percent in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same quarter last year, with each organization experiencing an average of 1,248 attacks per week.

Globally, in the first quarter of 2023, the education/research sector suffered the most attacks, with an average of 2,507 attacks per organization per week, a 15% increase from the first quarter of 2022.

The government/military sector was the second most targeted, with an average of 1,725 attacks per week, a 3 percent increase from the previous year.

The healthcare sector saw a significant increase in attacks, with an average of 1,684 attacks per week, a significant increase of 22% (year-on-year).

However, the most significant change occurred in the retail/wholesale sector, which experienced the most (year-over-year) growth of 49 percent and an average of 1,079 attacks per week.

APAC (Asia-Pacific region) saw the largest increase in average weekly attacks per organization (year-over-year), up 16 percent, which averaged 1,835 attacks per organization. Next comes the North American region. , which saw a 9 percent increase (year-over-year) and averaged 950 weekly attacks per organization.

Additionally, the report showed that approximately one in 31 organizations worldwide experienced a weekly ransomware attack in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 1 percent compared to the same period in 2022.

Latin America saw the largest (year-over-year) increase of 28 percent, with one in 17 organizations experiencing a ransomware attack.

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