The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SLCERT) and Vietnamese Internet security company BKIS were "key contributors" to a recently concluded annual drill themed "Fighting Cyber Crimes with Financial Incentives" which tested the capability of 16 teams from 14 economies (Australia, Brunei, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam), all of which fall under the purview of drill organisers Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT).
According to a APCERT statement: "In this year’s scenarios, financial web sites handling online transactions including e-banking, e-auction and stock trading were under different kinds of attack by cyber criminals, with an aim to paralyse online business activities, to compromise user credentials and to transfer money to fuel the underground economy".
Further, according to APCERT Chair Roy Ko, “This is the sixth drill organised... [It] is important because cyber attacks are borderless [and it is vital] to share the information and experience on cross-border incident handling, to refine and test the points of contacts and procedures, and to respond to active Internet attacks in progress. The capability to organise an annual drill verifies our competence to protect our own cyber security and our neighbours. It is encouraging that more teams participated in the drill this year, with many other teams and organisations joining in as observers to learn from this exercise." |
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