At this time, in addition to the entire world, the incidence of cybercrime in India is increasing. An example of this has come up in a report by cybersecurity company Symantec. It has been told that in the first half of this year, after the US and Australia, Indian users are most affected by form jacking attacks. In such attacks, cybercriminal finds a way to change the JavaScript files of any website. These hackers put malware-affected JavaScript code on the website, from which they get the user's card data and other personal information.
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In a recent report, Symantec said that on average, websites affected in this way remain infected for 46 days. In the first 6 months of the year 2019, 52% of the form jacking attacks have been in the US and 8.1% of the attacks have been on the users of Australia. India comes at number three in this list. Here 6% of such attacks have occurred on users. It has been reported in this report that till now attacks on websites like Ticketmaster, British Airways, Feedify and Newegg have been executed.
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Candid Wueest, a Principal Threat Researcher of Symantec, has said that there are Formjacking Attacks on different websites every month. With this, they also make millions of crores of rupees. He further said that "users often do not notice that they are falling victim to form jacking attacks because such attacks are done only on the trusted online store. In order to avoid this, it is very important to have a comprehensive security solution so that users can be protected from this attack". Symantec reported that it has prevented more than 2.3 million form jacking attacks globally in the second quarter of 2019.
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