In June earlier this year, Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky Lab’s Director of Global Research and Analysis Team in APAC, had said how India stands among the top 5 countries in the world attacked by ransomware. Now, he tells Tech2 that one-third of the ransomware incidents in APAC  in Q3 2016 were in India. The India trend showed a drop in Q2 2016 compared to Q1 by 50 percent, but quickly followed by a 100 percent increase in Q3 2016. It went down during the summer and could be probably related to Indian holiday time as it started picking soon by the end of summer.
Kamluk said that India requires more awareness to deal by making people prepare for such attacks so that they don’t lose money. And, it will also require some initiatives from the government. Countries like Russia and Singapore have hoarding education general public around cyber crimes and precaution. In some
European schools, students are thought about online protection, how to recognise scam, malware and so on. Maybe similar initiatives could help increase awareness. This way, it doesn’t really matter whether you access Internet via mobile or desktop, basic awareness and essential precautions could help deal with it.
Moreover, he added that the government should promote and encourage people to report cyber crime incidents. There should be cyber police staff that is efficiently trained by experts.
At the ongoing Kaspersky Lab Cyber Security Weekend for Asia Pacific countries, he also revealed some other findings such as India stands 25th overall, and after China in APAC when it comes to online detections in Q3 2016, and 19th when it comes to malicious hosts with a figure that reads 526348.
Take a look at the two graphs below:
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Taking about basic protection for phones, especially when we are using them for online banking, online transactions, govt websites, it is essential to safeguard the device. “Free solutions are better than nothing. It is good to have one if you cannot afford anything at all. But, in terms of reliability, efficient and detection statistics they certainly lack certain things. Now, data base experts, knowledge, collecting samples and so on requires human resources, time and money to run the infrastructure. If you make it free, you still have to support it, and then how you do it when nobody pays any money. So, its quite controversial model. The quality definitely wont be same,” he added.
The best way is to check anti-virus test results to know which anti-virus is good, and compare all aspects. Talking about future threats, he highlights IoT, Auto and Cloud.
Talking about enterprise and cloud solutions, he said, “Kaspersky Virtualisation Solution. Its kind of light engine that may run within virtual containers. The anti-virus will be outside so that you can save computational resources. It can help not one but a number of machines with minimum impact on performance.”