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16 April, 2021
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2021 Norton Cyber-Safety Insights Report

Norton Report on cybercrime in India in 2020-21

The NortonLifelock recently released a report titled "2021 Norton cyber-Safety Insights Report"

Key Findings of the report:

59% of Indians, that is, more than one in two adults in the country have experienced cybercrime in the last twelve months.
The report says that seven in ten Indian adults believe that the remote work atmosphere created by COVID-19 has made it easier for hackers and cybercriminals
Around 52% of the adults in India do not know how to protect themselves from cybercrime
More than twenty-seven million adults have faced identity thefts in 2020-21.
90% of consumers using online transactions are taking proactive steps to safeguard their data.
42% believe that it is impossible to protect their privacy.
66% are worried that they are more vulnerable to cybercrimes due to COVID-19 and how it is making the world become more reliable on digital platforms.
52% of cybercrime victims turned to their friends for help and 47% contacted the company for resolving the issues.
Of the total cybercrimes that occurred in India, 14% occurred in 2020

Steps were taken to spread awareness about Cybercrimes

Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) was launched to handle issues related to cybercrimes in the country.
An online Cybercrime reporting portal was launched to report complaints related to child sexual abuse material or child pornography.
Cyber Swachhta Kendra was established. These are Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centres. It provides detection of malicious programmes and free tools to remove such programmes.
National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre was launched to protect critical information infrastructure.

Source: TH

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