Britain’s one of the largest mobile services providers BT Group raises cybersecurity alarm: “...every 90 seconds hackers are checking…”

BT Group, which is one of Britain's largest mobile services providers, has claimed it has spotted 2,000 signals of potential cyber-attacks across its network every second, a report has said. According to the company, cyber criminals have been using disposable “bots” to try to evade existing blocking and security measures.
“Our data shows that every 90 seconds hackers are checking connected devices to find a way in,” said BT's managing director of security Tris Morgan, as per news agency Reuters.
It also claimed that the digital surveillance activity by hackers using malicious scanning “bots” was 1,200% higher in July compared to the same month the previous year.

Without providing any further information, BT said that hackers are also targeting the retail, education and hospitality industries as well as the defence and financial services sectors – which are their traditional hunting grounds.
This data was released at the company’s Secure Tomorrow cybersecurity event, where it showed its quantum secure communications and AI cyber defence capabilities.

Last month, Sunil Bharti Mittal's conglomerate announced that it will buy a stake in BT Group for about $4 billion to become the single largest shareholder in Britain's biggest broadband and mobile company.
The company said in a statement that Bharti Global, the international investment arm of Bharti Enterprises, will buy a 9.99 per cent stake in BT Group from Patrick Drahi's Altice immediately and purchase the remainder after it secures the necessary regulatory approvals.
Bharti is India's second-largest telecom operator with about 400 million subscribers. BT owned a 21% stake in Bharti Airtel from 1997 to 2001.