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March 2017
As
traffic to e-wallet platforms grows, there has been a significant increase in
cyber attacks on online payment gateways to steal data than to disrupt
operations, a new report said on Wednesday.
According
to the data provided by global leader in content delivery network (CDN)
services Akamai Technologies, hits to web pages on e-wallet companies grew from
512,115,015 per day in September to 1,264,470,283 per day in February in the
country. The Total Investment &
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Akamai
in India analysed the growth in traffic volume to India's e-wallet sites on the
Akamai Intelligent Platform, three months before and three months after the
demonetisation announcement.
"Nearly
94 per cent of attack attempts on mobile wallet companies were on the
application layer (XSS and RFI attacks) with intent to steal business critical
data," the report added.
Distributed
Denial of Service or DDoS attacks were insignificant in comparison to the
overall number of attacks observed, the report noted. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
DDoS
attempts on these wallets constituted less than 1 per cent of the total number
of attempts in this time period, emphasising the fact that attacks were
intended to steal data and not necessarily disrupt operations of mobile wallet
firms. The Total Investment &
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According
to Akamai's recent "State of The Internet Security" report for Q4
2016, India is second in the list of countries in Asia Pacific that sourced the
most web application attack traffic with nearly 86,38,666 attacks attributed as
originating from the country, after China.
India
also ranks fourth in the list of target countries for web application attacks
globally, the report said.The Total
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