Kaspersky Antivirus ranks India as sixth highest in mobile malware attacks

HYDERABAD: In the opening months of 2019, India recorded a huge number of mobile malware attacks, so much so that Kaspersky Antivirus in its first-quarter report ranked the country at sixth among the countries with most such attacks.

In its report, IT Threat Revolution Q1, 21.53 per cent of all Kaspersky Antivirus users in the country recorded mobile malware attacks. At the helm was neighbours, Pakistan and Bangladesh with 37.54 per cent and 28.83 cent users attacked from January to April.