DICT: 5.4M cyber attacks vs gov’t agencies deterred in 2024

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) was able to prevent over 5 million attempts to compromise the cybersecurity of several government agencies last year.

“In 2024, the DICT automatically deterred approximately 5.4 million malicious attempts against 32 government agencies connected to our national security operations,” DICT Undersecretary for Cybersecurity Jeffrey Ian Dy said at the Saturday News Forum.

“We processed 2,500 cases, 60 of them from advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. Kapag sinabing advanced persistent threat groups -- these are state-level types of hacking, 'yung super complicated,” Dy explained.

The DICT official said the agency is at the forefront of the country’s defenses against cyber threats.

“In the cyberspace, we are also defending against these types of attacks,” he said.

The ICT Department official noted that of the 60 APT groups deterred, “approximately more than 30 are associated with Chinese groups.”

“Some small groups have been detected to be coming in from Russia, North Korea, and some other Eastern European countries but a majority of them are associated with Chinese groups,” Dy said. —VAL, GMA Integrated News