Number of serious cyber attacks in UK to triple by 2024

Over the past year, the UK National Cyber Security Centre received nearly 1,960 reports of cyber attacks, with 89 incidents of national significance and 12 incidents at the highest level of severity.

On December 3, the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released its annual assessment showing that serious cyber attacks against the country's organizations and companies in the past 12 months have tripled, including major incidents affecting London hospitals and the National Library of England.

NCSC chief executive Richard Horne has warned that the UK is facing a growing gap between infrastructure capabilities and cyber security threats as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and existing technologies increase the scale and severity of attacks.

Mr Horne said hostile activity in cyberspace has increased in frequency, sophistication and intensity.

According to the NCSC, in the past year, the agency received nearly 1,960 reports of cyber attacks in the UK, 430 of which required NCSC support, with 89 incidents of national significance and 12 incidents at the highest level of the severity scale, three times higher than last year.

Among the most notable incidents were two ransomware attacks on the testing service provider Synnovis, which disrupted healthcare services for thousands of patients at major London hospitals, and on the British National Library, which affected nearly 50% of the library's financial records.

Mr Horne also warned that the severity of the risk was being underestimated, stressing that cyber security of critical infrastructure supply chains and the public sector must be improved.

The NCSC says using strong passwords and NCSC services such as "web auditing" to find and fix website vulnerabilities can prevent the majority of cyber attacks.

However, according to the NCSC, cyber attackers are copying these techniques and the availability of technology means criminals are increasingly able to carry out sophisticated cyber attacks on a large scale and steal better data, even without the expertise./.

(Vietnam+)

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