Azerbaijan announces number of cyber threats in country’s segment of Internet in 1H2022

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 17. The number of
requests in Azerbaijan related to computer security amounted to 3
million in the first half of 2022, the Center for Combating
Computer Incidents (CERT) told Trend.

Some 94.3 percent (2.8 million) of the total number of requests
were considered and satisfied.

According to CERT, the computer incident response team prepared
and sent 204 reports to the relevant structures based on the
information security audit, during the reporting period.

Additionally, 28 domain names and 85 subdomains were registered
in the Azerbaijani segment of the Internet from January through
June 2022.

The number of unique cyber incidents in the Azerbaijani segment
of the Internet decreased by 20.3 percent in 2021 compared to 2020,
to 3.9 million.