Cyber ​​attacks, over 23 thousand vulnerable IP addresses

In order to prevent being affected by attacks, the National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber ??Security analyzed IPs, the connecting ports of technological devices on the Internet in the country. AKCESK reports that it has found 23,359 vulnerable IPs, almost half of which are critical. There were about two million attempts at cyber attacks against the phones, tablets or computers of citizens, businesses and institutions in the country last year.

The fall of the "digital state" two years ago, along with Iran's continued attempts at cyber attacks, turned everyone's attention like never before to digital security. In order to prevent being affected by attacks, the National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber ??Security analyzed IPs, the connecting ports of technological devices on the Internet in the country. AKCESK reports that it has found a total of 23,359 vulnerable IPs, almost half of which are critical.

"Vulnerable IPs are normally public IPs which from the tests done by AKCESK have resulted in different vulnerabilities. These are checks that are carried out to identify open ports that in fact should not be open", says IT expert Erion Demiri.

Even higher is the number of IPs that can be affected by malware. According to AKCESK, there are over 151,000 such. Most of them, 62 percent, are at risk from attacks called Avalache-Andromeda, followed by Sysemz, Adload, Android hummer, Qakbot and Downadup.

"Malware are different programs. There are different "viruses" that have evolved to the type of Ransomware attacks. "Mountain threats are recent threats," Demiri emphasizes.

There were about two million attempts at cyber attacks against the phones, tablets or computers of citizens, businesses and institutions in the country last year.

"Mathematically speaking. Cyber ??attacks are on the rise. Not only in Albania, but all over the world. "Cyber ??attacks are the vanguard of conventional attacks," says the expert.

Last year, 287 people were criminally prosecuted for opening fake profiles on social networks, mainly of girls, stealing business data and attempting to interfere in the computer systems of institutions.