Since September 12 Large-scale cyber attack in Colombia It aims to seriously affect the state’s assets and critical infrastructures.
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This digital attack enables, among other things, procedures against important assets such as: to be carried out completely offline and without the possibility of digital attention: Industry and Trade Inspectorate, Health Inspectorate, Supreme Council of Judiciary, Ministry of Health and Social Protectionin addition to other assets.
The cyber attack took the form of Ransomware (digital ‘hijacking’ of information and applications) against IFX Network, a communications services and digital platform company serving affected organisations.
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Government sources told EL TIEMPO that considering the seriousness of the situation, an emergency Unified Command Post (PMU) was convened.
In fact, when trying to access the websites of these organizations, they seem to crash with an error report or notification of technical problems.
The Supreme Council of the Judiciary says, ‘We will return soon.’
Meanwhile, this massive digital attack took place at a time when the importance and urgency of having a National Digital Security Agency was being discussed. There were even controversies due to divisions that prevented the progress of this initiative.
The project will be responsible for bringing together the private and public sectors, the Military Forces’ cybersecurity reaction groups, judicial and police units, as well as experts and academics to design computer security and cyber defense policies. An initiative to create this is currently emerging in Congress. The government will present another plan on this issue.
According to reports, the cyber attack was aimed at the company IFX Networksis an American company that provides telecommunications solutions, operating in 17 countries in this region.
External Ransomware-type cybersecurity attack affected some virtual machines in Colombia; However, no security breach was found in the customers’ information.
The report also detailed that organizations implementing IFX services cannot be used on their service platforms. Also customers We may become victims of new attacks The result of this incident was what became known as the Attack on the Supply Chain.
These cyber crimes are the subject of analysis in the country. Colombia is in trouble in the first half of 2023, according to Fortinet More than 5 billion cyber attacks have been attempted.
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