KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The top of the Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Workforce (JaCIRT), Lieutenant Colonel Godphey Sterling, urges companies and residents to undertake good cybersecurity practices to guard themselves in opposition to botnet assaults.
A botnet is a community of computer systems managed by a single attacker contaminated by software program designed to disrupt, harm, or acquire unauthorized entry to a pc system.
“What this implies is that there are individuals on the market whose computer systems have been compromised and are a part of a community that’s used to conduct malicious exercise, and they’re unaware,” stated Sterling, noting the re-emergence of botnets working in Jamaica.
Sterling, addressing a Jamaica Data Service (JIS) ‘Assume Tank,” stated three botnets have been recognized. They encourage individuals to safe their units by carefully monitoring their networks, protecting software program up-to-date, and changing machines as crucial.
Individuals are additionally urged to watch failed logins to their techniques.
He stated there has additionally been a rise within the variety of cyberattacks carried out in opposition to Jamaicans from perpetrators exterior the nation and that the determine now stands at simply over 8,000 for the reason that begin of 2023.
The variety of assaults from Jamaica in opposition to individuals exterior the nation can also be rising.
Roughly 25,000 assaults had been recorded throughout the first quarter of the yr, which grew exponentially within the second quarter to greater than 40,000.
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