SBU blocks 59 cyberattacks on government agencies in Dec 2021

04.01.2022 13:23

Ukrinform

Specialists of the Cyber Security Situation Center of Ukraine's SBU State Security Service thwarted 59 cyberattacks on the information systems of government institutions in December 2021, the SBU's press service has said.

According to the report, this was done through a direct analysis of more than 28,000 critical information security incidents identified this month.

"The main types of detected cyber threats (hacker attacks) were the connection to command-and-control servers (C&C servers), attempts to gain unauthorized access (brute force attack), Web application attacks, malware, etc.," the statement said.

The press service also recalled that the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) was operating at the SBU's Cyber Security Situation Center, which monitors events in real time and allows analyzing the state of information security. Potentially critical events are directly handled by security analysts, which makes it possible to quickly identify, respond to and prevent threats in the national cyberspace.

On October 5, 2021, Volodymyr Koliadenko, Vice President of the Kyiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of the Anti-Crisis Center for Cyber Defense of Business of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that 60,000 cyberattacks were recorded in Ukraine every week, with attacks on the public sector taking the first place.