US cyber attacks will increase during 2019

Cyber ​​attacks from one State to another are “the main threat to national security” in the United States and they will be one of the modalities of attack that will increase the most in this year  according to the growing trend that they have experienced during the past year. It was predicted this way by the National Cryptological Center (CCN-CERT).

The CCN-CERT has published on Monday the 2019 edition of its ‘Report on Cyber ​​Threats and Trends‘, a document of 128 pages in which it analyzes what, were and how the main cyber threats evolved in Spain and in the rest of the world, registered during the past year.

In 2018, the government cyber security agency, responsible for the National Intelligence Center (CNI), managed a total of 38,029 incidents of cyber security, which has meant an increase of 43.65% over 2017.

2.7% of cyber attacks warned by the CCN had a ‘very high’ or ‘critical’ danger, which means an average of 2.8 daily incidents of this type. Most of the attacks were intrusions (57.6%), followed by the harmful code (16.07%)

Depending on the type of threats, attacks by State-sponsored groups or directly from one State to another “continue to represent the most significant cyber threats on the international scene” in 2019, according to the report.

With this type of attacks, countries have traditional objectives such as “subtracting information to improve their strategic, political, economic or innovative (espionage) position”, or others observed last year as “the attempt to influence the public opinion of the countries attacked or interrupting the normal provision of essential services (sabotage).”

The CCN has warned about the arrival of 5G data networks. “The adoption of 5G will expand the attack surface,” according to the agency, which believes devices directly connected to the mobile network instead of WiFi are “more vulnerable to direct attack”.

K. Tovar

Source: Europapress