Cyber criminals attacking India are from Pakistan, China and US
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India’s cyber security is tampered by cyber criminals from countries like Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and the US, Parliament was informed today. "In such cases, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) notifies the concerned organisation regarding the cyber attacks and requests for logs of network devices, servers and other related components for analysing the attacks and identifying sources of attack," he said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
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Analysis of attack methodology is done based on available log provided by the organisations, he added.
"According to the logs as analysed and made available to CERT-In, the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the computers from where the attacks originated belong to the countries including the US, Europe, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Brazil, Turkey,
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Prasad said there has been a rise in the incidents of cyber attacks in the past years with increase in the proliferation of IT and related services.
"The trend in increase in cyber attacks is similar to that worldwide. A total number of 22,060, 71,780, 1,30,338, and 49,504
The Minister said a total of 27,605 and 28,481 websites were hacked by various hacker groups during the year 2012 and 2013, respectively.
"In the year 2014 and 2015 (upto May), the total number of security incidents includes the websites hacked by various hacker groups as 32,323 and 9,057, respectively," he added.
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