Despite the "Cyber Hygiene Project" implemented for employees of state institutions, the promotion of the application of the "Information Security Guidelines", as well as other awareness-raising measures implemented, during 2024, employees of a number of state institutions failed to comply with cyber hygiene rules, and a total of 134 employees of 32 state institutions became victims of hacker attacks.
In addition, citizens who do not comply with information security and personal cyber hygiene rules when using the Internet also become victims of hacker attacks. The statistics of citizens who became victims of hacker attacks and, in addition to the information on their personal computers, also lost their authentication (login, password) and personal data related to the electronic services of state institutions of which they were users, were registered by the State Information and Communications Technology Service. Thus, the total number of personal accounts related to state electronic services that were leaked to hackers from citizens during 2024 was 3798.
The relevant state agencies were informed about the cases of infection detected by the State Service for Special Communications and Information Security during the reporting period, and necessary steps were taken to eliminate the consequences, and on-site inspection measures were carried out in a number of institutions.
In order to organize reliable protection against increasing cyber threats and strengthen personal cyber hygiene, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Security recommends that state agencies connect to a centralized antivirus system, and citizens use antiviruses individually, including not clicking on suspicious links sent to protect against cyber attacks, and send information about fake domains to the “blacklist.gov.az” platform.
