Internet security solutions company QuickHeal has found a massive security threats to desktops and laptops with Windows Operating System in India. The firm claims that as many as 180 million Windows were found vulnerable in the April-June quarter.

The firm also detected a rapid increase in general threats with over 2 million malware, 16,000 ransomware, 13,000 cryptomining malware, 141,000 exploits and 40,488 potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) and adware were detected on a daily basis.

“More than 18 crore threats were detected on Windows devices of individual and enterprise users between April and June 2018. May was the busiest month, with more than 74 million incidents detected, followed by April and June that witnessed 55 million and 51 million detections respectively,” a Quarterly Threat Report for the second quarter in 2018 said.

“The absence of appropriate cybersecurity measures, has also made users and businesses across India more vulnerable to emerging threats,” it said.

“Cybercriminals are at a completely different level today than they were a few years ago. They are using novel technologies to drive increasingly-complex attacks and are targeting larger user bases. The latest Threat Report highlights this risk that individuals and businesses in India currently face with this evolution of the threat landscape,” Sanjay Katkar, Joint Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer, Quick Heal Technologies, said.

The Trojan Horse families retained its position as the most dominant malware in the quarter, registering a quarter-on-quarter growth of 4 per cent.

“Individual users and businesses across India need to understand the massive risk that they are exposed to at present. Ignorance is not a viable cybersecurity strategy. The need of the hour is to drive large-scale adoption of cutting-edge security solutions such as those offered by Quick Heal and Seqrite,” he said.

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