All of this leads to one conclusion: Cybercriminals are piggybacking on the digital transformation wave.
In 2022, the Singapore Cyber Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) reported that phishing attempts had more than doubled in 2022 in comparison to 2021. More recently, the public sector clocked a 2% increase in data security incidents for its 2022 fiscal year.
In the following year, cyberattacks continued to evolve in complexity and nuance beyond inciting massive disruptions. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack had hit the websites of several public healthcare institutions, causing a seven-hour-long outage. While patient data and internal networks remained online and unaffected, all websites and internet-reliant services were inaccessible due to the attack.
