In its sixth edition, the new report provides information on the most common cyber attacks encountered in the Romanian market to industry experts and the business community alike, along with predictions for 2024 and concrete solutions provided by Orange Business for the protection of companies and public administrations, the report shows.
According to the report compiled by Orange Business experts, who analyzed over 11 million identified threats monthly through the Business Internet Security service, there has been observed a constant increase in the number of cyber attacks. Data analysis for 2023 showed that the energy sector was the most affected, accounting for 31% of total attacks, followed by transportation with over 22%, the governmental and public services sector with 19%, retail with 19.7%, and healthcare with over 10%.
In terms of distribution across Romania, most attacks targeted capital city Bucharest, accounting for nearly 40% of all threats. The capital is followed by the Southeast region with 27.13%, and the region of Banat with 16.27%. Thus, Bucharest is in the lead, with an average of 980,000 prevented attacks each month, followed by the city of Constanta with an average of 670,000 attacks per month, while the city of Timisoara ranks third with nearly 340,000 detected and blocked threats each month.
2023 has been a year dominated by ransomware, continuing the trend from previous years, characterized by a growing number of attacks affecting numerous companies and resulting in losses totaling tens of billions of USD. Analyzed data revealed that ransomware attacks continue to spread through traditional vectors such as emails, social networks, and downloading files from insecure sources, as well as through new methods such as browser-initiated attacks. In a ranking of the most widespread attack types, ransomware takes the lead with over 34%, followed by phishing at 31% for the third consecutive year, while DDoS attacks rank third, accounting for 27% of total incidents.