An organisation in India faced cyber attack 1,738 times on average per week in the last six months compared to 757 attacks per organisation globally, a report showed on Thursday. The most impacted industries in India in the last six months were education/research, government/military, insurance/legal, manufacturing and healthcare, according to the report by Check Point Research (CPR), the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies.

Cyber criminals have continued to exploit the Covid-19 pandemic and highlights a dramatic 93 per cent increase in the number of ransomware attacks globally, said the ‘Cyber Attack Trends: 2021 Mid-Year Report'. At 1,338, organisations in the APAC region faced the highest number of cyber-attacks weekly, followed by EMEA at 777 and Americas at 688.