In 2023, the number of registered cyber incidents in Ukraine increased by 62.5%.
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This was reported by the press service of the State Cyber Defense Center of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.
During 2023, using the tools of the system for detecting vulnerabilities and responding to cyber incidents and cyber attacks (SVV), there was:
- about 18 billion events were processed using tools for monitoring, analyzing and transmitting telemetric information about cyber incidents and cyber attacks;
- 133 million suspicious information security events were detected (during the initial analysis);
- 148 thousand critical information security events were processed (potential cyber incidents detected by filtering suspicious information security events and secondary analysis).
In addition, 1,105 cyber incidents were directly recorded and processed by security analysts, which is 62.5% more than in 2022, the department reported.
It is noted that during 2023, 24 new cyber defense facilities from the government, energy and military sectors were connected to the IDS.
During the year, subsystems belonging to SVV automatically detected 1 million 516 thousand 861 suspicious unique files. At the same time, among the malware families detected in information security events of category “02 Malicious program code”, the following prevailed:
- SmokeLoader (a virus that hackers sent to victims’ emails in letters with the subject “invoice/payment” with an attachment in the form of a ZIP archive, in order to create unauthorized payments);
- Agent Tesla (“a remote access Trojan horse that allows attackers to monitor and collect keyboard input data. Sent out under the guise of letters allegedly from Novaya Poshta);
- Snake Keylogger (records keystrokes on the keyboard to steal account passwords);
- Remcos (a remote control program sent by hackers under the guise of letters with “requirements from the SBU”);
- Formbook (“Trojan horse” that steals user data).
Source: Racurs
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