The Register reports:
Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.
GCHQ’s cyber arm, the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC), said in its annual review published today that its incident management team handled 429 cyberattacks on organizations in the past 12 months, one fewer than the same reporting period in last year’s review.
However, the number of nationally significant attacks stood at 204, a 48 percent increase year on year, and the number of highly significant attacks stood at 18, a 50 percent increase on last year – the third marked increase in as many years.
So what action do they want? Well, they want organizations to do more and do it urgently:
NCSC chief exec Richard Horne said: “Cybersecurity is now a matter of business survival and national resilience. With over half the incidents handled by the NCSC deemed to be nationally significant, and a 50 percent rise in highly significant attacks compared to last year, our collective exposure to serious impacts is growing at an alarming pace.
“The best way to defend against these attacks is for organizations to make themselves as hard a target as possible. That demands urgency from every business leader: hesitation is a vulnerability, and the future of their business depends on the action they take today. The time to act is now.”
Read more at The Register.
