Lanka ranks 60th globally in cyber incidents involving local servers

Global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, Kaspersky has revealed important insights into the origins of online threats affecting users worldwide, including those in Sri Lanka.

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When a Kaspersky customer encounters an online threat, the company records the geographic location of the server hosting the malicious content detected by its security systems. This data sheds light on the global and local distribution of cyberattack origins, highlighting how compromised or maliciously-used infrastructure across different countries shapes the threat landscape for users everywhere, said a release. Globally, servers in the Netherlands hosted the largest share of cyber threats detected, accounting for 46.37 percent of incidents. Servers in Germany, Russia, Poland and Singapore rounded out the top hosting locations. The geographic distribution reflects compromised infrastructure patterns rather than the actual locations of cybercriminal operations. Based on data collected between January and M