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Cybersecurity threats decreasing, with AI deployed by both sides
The National Cyber and Encryption Agency says there have been 844,000 indications of successful ransomware attacks this year.
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New threats: Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at his office in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong province, on Aug. 4, 2020. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
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he number of potential cyberattacks against Indonesia’s public and private sector has come down in the past two years, according to data from the National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN).
Occurrences of abnormal data traffic, which are used as an indicator of potential network misuse or security attacks, dropped to 976 million last year, well down from the peak of 1.6 billion hit in 2021.
As of Aug. 27, the agency had only detected around 270 million such abnormalities this year, pointing to a further decline.
However, the BSSN also noted that more than 75 percent of those anomalies were categorized with the status “compromised”, meaning the attack was deemed to have succeeded in infecting the target.
"Around 844,000 of those attacks came from ransomware, including [attacks of the] LockBit type that recently infiltrated a domestic bank," BSSN head Hinsa Siburian said in his opening remarks for the IndoSec 2023 conference in Jakarta on Tuesday.
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Tradepass, the organizer of the two-day event, said the country was becoming more vulnerable with the growth of activity in the digital space, as digital transformation had become the need of the hour, a trend that has underpinned growing interest in cybersecurity.
