Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center

HKCERT Unveils "Hong Kong Cyber Security Outlook 2025"
Phishing Hits Five-year High Vulnerabilities in Supply Chain and AI Content Hijacking Emerge as Key Risks Over Half of Enterprises Fear Cyber Attacks on IoT Digital Signages


Protect your Personal Digital Keys, Beware of Fraudulent Links!
Internet banking login ID and passwords are as important as the keys to your house. Don’t give them to others recklessly!


Download "Incident Response Guideline for SMEs" for Cyber Security Incidents
Cyber attacks evolve rapidly as the costs and efforts required for hackers to launch attacks are decreasing due to the development of automation and computing powers. This leads to increased cyber attacks targeting different organisations (including public or private, multinational or local organisations). As most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) lack the resources to build a wider scope of cyber defence to prevent or block cyber attacks, this makes them an easy target.
To address the above-mentioned issues, HKCERT has developed the “Incident Response Guideline for SMEs” to help SMEs and other organisations


Introducing the New “Fight Ransomware” Webpage
To keep pace with the changes in ransomware attacks, HKCERT recently consolidated the ransomware attack techniques, prevention and handling procedures to create a new dedicated “Fight Ransomware ” webpage.


Introducing "Check your Cyber Security Readiness" Online Assessment Tool
• Improved user experience
• Enhanced usability
• Better reporting


All 4 episodes of the 【Hack me if you can】animation series are now available
Focusing on hacker Ah Keung’s repeated attempts to hack into SME owner Ah Chun’s systems, and how Chun’s friend, Chi On, helps repel the attacks, the stories are light-hearted and down-to-earth.


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Facilitate information disseminating, provide advices on preventive measures against security threats and to promote information security awareness
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"HKCERT Capture the Flag Challenge 2024" - Seminar and Award Presentation Ceremony
21 Jan 2025
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Statistics
The figure for each type of cyber attack is aggregated by the security incident reported to us. This dataset starts from Jan 2018 to current month. To learn more, please click here.

27470
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Botnet

27152
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Phishing

6052
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Malware

225
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Web Defacement/Intrusion

122
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Distributed Denial-of-service

4624
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Others