Context:  Recently, the India cyber threat report 2023  is released by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) and Quick heal.

• Apart from above, the cyber cell of UT police has got ‘Cyber Cop of India’ award from Data Security Council of India (DSCI) for its outstanding investigation into a fake Chinese app case.

• The UT cyber cell had cracked the multi-crore scam involving fake Chinese loan apps. Cyber cops arrested a total of 29 accused and recovered Rs 17.3 lakh in cash (cheated amount) and got Rs 60 lakh frozen.

About Indian Cyber Threat Report 2023

• Purpose: To empower businesses to fortify their cybersecurity posture by presenting a  thorough analysis of cyber threats in the Indian landscape, drawing on a wealth of data, statistics, and telemetry from approximately 8.5 million endpoints.

Key Findings

• Total Detections: Over 400 million detections across approximately 8.5 million Endpoints.

• Detection Rate: Averaging 761 detections per minute.

• Behaviour-Based Detections: Approximately 49 million detections(12.5%) stem from behaviour-based analysis.

• Ransomware incident ratio:  1 per 650 detections

• Malware incident ratio:  1 per 38,000 detections · 

• Cryptojacking (Emerging Threat): It is a type of cybercrime that involves the unauthorized use of people’s devices (computers, smartphones, tablets, or even servers) by cybercriminals to mine for cryptocurrency.

• A significant increase in Adware and Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs).

About Data Security Council of India (DSCI)

• It is a premier industry body on data protection in India, setup by NASSCOM. 

• It is  committed to making cyberspace safe, secure and trusted by establishing best practices, standards and initiatives in cyber security and privacy.