HKPC Warns of Rising Trend of Cybercrime-as-a-Service

With the growing trend of “cybercrime-as-a-service”, information security experts at the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) today (16 January 2017) urged enterprises and the public to strengthen their guard against a surge in attacks from ransomware, and incidents targeting web servers, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

The advice came as HKPC’s Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) reported a 23% rise in security incidents in Hong Kong in 2016, totalling 6,058, as compared to 2015. Malware cases (1,139, or 19% of the total) powered the surge, with an increase of 247%; while Botnet (2,028 cases, 33%) and Phishing (1,957 cases, 32%) remained the principal sources of the reports.

For details, please refer to: www.hkcert.org/my_url/en/articles/17011601

Mr Wilson Wong, General Manager (IT Industry Development) of HKPC (left), and Mr Leung Siu-Cheong, Senior Consultant of the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre of HKPC, review the information security situation in Hong Kong of the previous year, and introduce the upcoming trends in 2017