Over 2,000 cyber incidents documented in Ukraine in 2022

Ukraine's State Special Communications Service has documented over 2,000 cyber incidents in 2022 and an even greater number of cyber attacks. [A cyber incident is a breach of a system's security policy in order to affect its integrity or availability and/or the unauthorised access or attempted access to a system or systems - ed.]

Source: Viktor Dzhura, Deputy Head of the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine, in a comment for Suspilne

Quote from Dzhura: "The government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) registered 2,194 cyber incidents last year; the total for cyber attacks was even larger. This year, the same trend continues.

Cyber incidents are defined as incidents in cyberspace that have been documented and manually processed by CERT-UA experts. Automated systems have recorded a total of around 7,000 cyber incidents."

Details: Dzhura explained that cyber incidents have taken place in government agencies' networks, financial institutions, logistics firms, critical infrastructure, energy sector, telecommunications companies, media and other industries. Ukraine’s allies are providing assistance to counter the attacks.

"Cyber attacks occur because we have a full-scale cyber war. The world’s first cyber war. It started nine years ago, immediately after the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of eastern Donbas. It is now in its active phase. We are effectively suffering regular cyber attacks since 14 January 2022 and we counter them quite effectively," the government official said. 

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