A surge of cyber attacks has kept Indian authorities on their toes during the last couple of days. More than 40,000 attacks were registered in just five days, . Cyber attacks and cyber crime have in fact seen a massive increase in India during the last decade. Crime cases resulting from cyber attacks increased almost 30-fold since 2010, despite the fact that few attacks lead to a case.
The attacks this week were coming out of China, police said, implying that a connection to recent border clashes between the two countries could play a role in the timing of the events. The criminals targeted IT infrastructure and the banking sector with phishing attempts and attempts to break into IT protocols, authorities said.
