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India 6th Most Affected Country by Ransomware: Report

Virus, malware, and URL online scanning service VirusTotal has  published  a report analyzing 80 million ransomware samples submitted over the last year and a half. The report sheds light on the geographical distribution of ransomware-related submissions across over 140 countries. VirusTotal Ransomware Activity Report According to the report,  users from Israel submitted the most samples , a 600 percent increase to its baseline. India stood at sixth place in the list behind South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Singapore. Other countries with the most number of VirusTotal submissions include Kazakhstan, Philippines, Iran, and the UK. “Attackers are using a range of approaches, including well-known botnet malware and other Remote Access Trojans (RATs) as vehicles to deliver their ransomware. In most cases, they are using fresh or new ransomware samples for their campaigns,”  said VirusTotal’s Vicente Diaz. You can check out the submission trends in the chart below: The report highlights that