On Safer Internet Day, the .PT Security Operations Center – PTSOC, Portugal, presents the annual report, a summary of the main events and trends that were observed in 2023 in the field of cybersecurity and puts into perspective the main challenges that lie ahead paragraph 2024.
In 2023, in a global context in which cybersecurity incidents and cybercrime continue to increase in number and sophistication, with ransomware, online scams and social engineering techniques such as phishing, smshing and more recently quishing, with the use of QRCodes, leading the cyberspace threat chart. These techniques, amplified by advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine-learning (ML), will make it possible to analyze and analyze large volumes of data, in real time, automating and introducing greater sophistication in these types of attacks. This trend is reinforced in the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risks Report, which anticipates the widespreadization of cybercrime and cyber insecurity as two of the top 10 competitive risks in the coming years and elevates cyber(in)security as one of the main issues to address by the European Community in the European Union (EU) Digital Decade agenda for 2030.
This PTSOC annual report aims to present a brief summary of the main events and trends that were observed in 2023 in the areas of cybersecurity and put into perspective the main challenges that lie ahead for 2024.
In 2023, 647 cases of DNS abuse were analyzed, domains that support malware, phishing, pharming, botnets or spam dissemination activity, with 130 confirmed and reported cases. The vast majority of these cases (89%) resulted from fishing attempts.
Read the full report here.
Source : European Digital Skills & Jobs Platform
