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India Among The Top 3 Countries Affected by Autorun Malware

cybercriminal_malwareIndia is the 3rd country to be affected by Autorun globally, reveals F-Secure study.

Autorun is a family of worms that spread mostly via infected removables and hard drives, and can perform harmful actions such as stealing data, banking credentials, installing backdoors and so on.

According to the new Threat Report, Autorun has been one of the top 5 PC Malware Threats in H2, 2014, making them a notable in today’s digital threat landscape.

The top countries (per 10,000 users) affected by Autorun are Malaysia (669), Turkey (315), India (306), Brazil (160) and Taiwan (143). In threats by region – Autorun is the 5th most found threat in Asia.