Lithuania recorded 63% more cyber-incidents in 2024 than in 2023, according to the National Cybersecurity study for the erstwhile year.
"The emergence is not due to an increased level of threat, but alternatively to an expanding public awareness and a better knowing of the request to study cyber-incidents," says the report. The National Cyber safety Centre (NKSC) registered 3874 cyber-incidents in 2024, compared with 2378 in 2023.
The paper notes that most incidents were classified as tiny or average and 3 were considered serious. The second were linked to groups supported by a abroad state that broke into the organization's network to accomplish long-term goals specified as espionage.
According to the Department of strategical Communications of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Russia's ongoing war with Ukraine had the top influence on "enemy information actions" directed against Lithuania in 2024. The Department claims that they came from Russian and Belarusian officials, politicians, military commanders and state-controlled media.
According to the report, disinformation activities increasingly focused on Lithuania's support for Ukraine. Narrations portrayed NATO as an aggressive military bloc and Lithuania as a rusophobic country. Efforts were besides made to discredit Lithuania's defence and to diminish the importance of the deployment of the German brigade.
The Armed Forces study that fear of possible planet War III or atomic conflict is besides growing. force is expected to stay advanced this year and efforts will proceed to discredit the Lithuanian armed forces and NATO, as well as to usage a communicative that blames the "collective West" tojustify Russian actions.
Source: LRT.lt
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