Raiu said public transparency regarding cyberattacks targeting banks is rather low. He added 90% of cyberattacks are relatively simple traditional cybercrimes, targeting home users, 9.9% target small and medium sized companies and 0.1% are advanced attacks, which have been affecting home users in the past four years as well.
Raiu said the increased number of ransomwares has become a huge problem, including for Romania. Such an example was in May this year, when several institutions, including the Dacia factory in Mioveni, experienced the effects of the WannaCry attack. The attack encrypted data and demanded ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.