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Number of illegal cyber incidents in Bulgaria rises in 2015

Xinhua, February 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bulgarian authorities registered 737 illegal cyber incidents last year against 639 in 2014, the ministry of information technology agency, "Electronic Communication Networks and Information Systems" (ECNIS), said in a statement on Thursday.

Among them, in 2015, the national computer security incident response team (CERT Bulgaria) to ECNIS registered 294 incidents with malicious code, 105 involving fraud, and 65 attempted unauthorized intrusions, the statement said.

In 2014, the numbers were 450, 57 and 90 respectively, ECNIS said.

According to CERT Bulgaria's director Vasil Grancharov, said the many vulnerabilities in the software of a number of websites and web servers that allow uploading malicious content, theft of sensitive information or break into the system should not be underestimated, the statement said. Endit