In the second quarter of this year, 200,918 unique IP addresses exposed to a cyberspace threat were registered in Latvia, which is 45,738 less than in the second quarter of last year, according to the cyberspace registered incident statistics published by the information technology security incident prevention institution Cert.lv.
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The collected data reveals that configuration failures are most often registered for unique IP addresses – 113,995 cases, followed by other registered cases – 76,239, malicious code – 6987, intrusion attempts – 2204 information gathering – 613, but no cases are registered for information security.
Mirai, the most frequently registered malicious code group, had 3328 cases, 1,200 were Compromised-routers and 886 were Pykspa malicious groups.
In order to provide a more complete overview of Latvian cyberspace and ensure international comparability of data, from January 1, 2017, “Cert.lv” uses an internationally used incident taxonomy for incident accounting. The statistics list all incidents recorded and processed together, broken down by type of threat, such as malware, intrusion, fraud, as well as by infection, such as Conficker, Zeus, Mirai, and vulnerabilities, such as Opendns. “,” Openrdp “types.
“Cert.lv” is University of Latvia A structural unit of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, whose tasks are to maintain a unified representation of the activities taking place in the electronic information space, to provide support in the prevention of information technology security incidents or to coordinate their prevention in Latvian IP address areas and the .lv domain name area.
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