National Cyber Security Centre reports growing online crime | Scoop News - Scoop

National Cyber Security Centre reports growing online crime | Scoop News - Scoop
Sunday, 28 November 2021, 12:00 pmArticle: Digitl

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="740"] Lisa Fong (National Cyber Security Centre)[/caption]



Criminal cyber attacks targeting Aotearoa New Zealand skyrocketed in numbers over the last year and continued to grow in sophistication.



At Reseller News Rob O'Neill writes: National Cyber Security Centre reports a surge in criminal cyber attacks.

While the proportion of state-linked malicious cyber activity was down slightly from last year’s 30 per cent, this was because of the greater proportion of criminal incidents recorded.


The report showed there were 404 incidents affecting nationally significant organisations in the 2020/21 year, a 15 per cent increase on last year.


These numbers reflect the NCSC’s focus is on incidents affecting New Zealand’s nationally significant organisations, and on incidents likely to have a national impact, which means the numbers represent just a small proportion of the total incidents affecting New Zealand



This squares with anecdotal evidence from New Zealand businesses that they are now constantly under attack.

When it comes to government and large scale business systems, it is likely the attackers are already inside the systems waiting for an opportunity.


Everyday crime rates are dropping in most rich countries like New Zealand. There's a clear switch from activities such risking your life with weapons to rob a a physical bank and getting online to steal money. Computer fraud is on the rise everywhere.


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