Singapore has recorded fewer instances of common cyber threats in 2018, but expects to see more frequent data breaches and disruptive attacks against the cloud in the near future. The city-state also remains a target of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks and must learn from previous incidents to better defend itself as it looks to build a digital economy.
According to Cyber Security Agency (CSA), there were 605 instances of website defacements last year compared to 2,040 in 2017, with most of the affected websites owned by small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Two government sites, however, also were impacted by such attacks last year, where a sharp climb was noted in November. This was likely the result of a hacker who exploited vulnerabilities in an unpatched web server, CSA explained, noting that various businesses hosted on that server were compromised by the attacker in a single day.