“This expansion is the result of the hacktivist group Dragon Force Malaysia‘s #OpIndia and #OpsPatuk campaigns. Numerous hacktivist groups joined and supported these campaigns, which laid the path for subsequent ones. Government agencies in India have become popular targets of extensive phishing campaigns,” the report stated.
India, together with China, USA and Indonesia, continued to be essentially the most focused nations within the final two years accounting for 40% of the entire incidents reported within the authorities sector.
The report stated that globally, the variety of assaults concentrating on the federal government sector has elevated by 95% within the second half of 2022, as in comparison with the identical interval in 2021.
One purpose for this has been the speedy digitisation on this sector, caused on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. This has elevated the assault floor for menace actors, in addition to made it simpler for hostile governments and state-sponsored actors to make use of cyber warfare to focus on different nations.
The motivation for finishing up cyber assaults has moved on from purely monetary features to creating a social or political level with hacktivist exercise accounting for 9% of the recorded incidents within the authorities sector.
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Ransomware teams had been additionally very lively on this trade accounting for six% of the entire incidents reported, with LockBIT as essentially the most distinguished ransomware operator, it stated.
The long-drawn struggle between Russia and Ukraine has additionally led to a rise in cyber threats towards state-owned entities. The report stated that that is the period of cyber warfare, which includes weaponizing hacking to each provoke assaults and stop cyber assaults.
“Cyber warfare can sabotage the electric and physical assets of a nation, and cause physical-world disruptions, along with economic damage,” it stated.