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NUMBER OF CYBER INCIDENTS IN UKRAINE DECREASE BY 42%

12 August , 2021  

The system of cyber protection of state information resources of Ukraine and critical infrastructure facilities at monitoring facilities in the period from 4 to 10 August 2021 recorded 746, 600 suspicious events, which is 42% less than the previous week.
According to the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine on Thursday, the vast majority of recorded suspicious events concern attempts to obtain user rights (36%), obtain administrator rights (19%), violations of corporate security policy (21%).
The system of secure access of state bodies to the Internet blocked 56,600 different types of attacks, which is 13% less than in the previous week. Of these, 97% are application-level network attacks, and one DDoS attack has also been recorded and blocked.
The government team for responding to computer emergencies in Ukraine CERT-UA during this period registered and processed 1,860 cyber incidents.
The vast majority of incidents handled belong to the UACOM domain zone (about 99%). The main number of incidents concerns the spread of malware (44% of the total) and fishing (55%).