‘1 in 3 Indian PC home users at high risk of cyber attack risk’

Nearly one third (28.22 per cent) of PC home users in India are at high risk of cyber attacks, according to a report by digital security and privacy provider Avast.

Avast’s latest Global PC Risk Report also looked into the possibility of users facing aadvanced’ threats — defined as more sophisticated or threats never seen before, designed to bypass common protection technologies included in security software, such as signatures, heuristics, emulators, URL filtering, and email scanning.

For this type of threat, Indian home users have a 5.78 per cent risk ratio, which is higher than the global average.