The australian cyber security centre acsc has released its annual report on key cyber threats and statistics from 2019 2020.
Cyber security annual report 2019.
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The cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency cisa encourages users and administrators to review acsc s annual cyber threat report july 2019 to june 2020 and cisa s tip on.
This report outlines key cyber threats and statistics over the period 1 july 2019 to 30 june 2020.
The acsc annual cyber threat report july 2019 to june 2020 pdf has been developed by the acsc acic and afp and is the first unclassified annual report since the acsc became part of the australian signals directorate asd in july 2018.
Our end of year report looks at the most significant cyber threats of 2019 including dns hijacking and targeted ransomware.
Over this period the acsc responded to 2 266 cyber security incidents and received 59 806 cybercrime reports at an average of 164 cybercrime reports per day or one report every 10 minutes.
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The report highlights that phishing and spearphishing are still the most common cyberattacks and ransomware has become a significant threat to operations across multiple sectors.
By bringing together cyber security capabilities from across the australian government the acsc works to improve cyber security and cyber resilience for the australian community.
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