Bangladesh Cyber Threat Landscape Report-2020 Published

Cyber threat is a growing risk that is increasing every day. New threats are showing up to the horizon as well as old threats are evolving with time and technology regularly. As we are living in era of globalization, these evolving threats are also affecting Bangladesh equally. Each year Risk Assessment Unit of Bangladesh Government Computer Incident Response Team or BGD e-GOV CIRT publishes “Bangladesh Cyber Threat Landscape” report by collecting information from Critical Information Infrastructures. This year we have collected the information from Critical Information Infrastructure, Government Agencies, Law Enforcing Agencies, Industry & Academia through a workshop and survey and based on their inputs prepared the document. This report aims to define national Bangladesh cyberthreat landscape for the year 2020. Every year international organizations as well as Industry Service Providers publish lot of Threat Landscapes. However, each nation has its own eccentricities, and in order to develop the requisite cyber capabilities and successfully minimize cyber threats, it is important to recognize the national cyber threat landscape based on local set of data. That’s where this effort comes into place. The national cyber threat landscape study of Bangladesh describes Bangladesh’s top cyber threats, their interactions with threat agents, specific threat mechanisms used to initiate a particular threat and kill chain for it. Each incident category used by the report is allocated to each cyberthreat. This report will be used to raise awareness on national cyberthreat landscape among executives, risk managers, auditors and security managers in Bangladesh and encourage them to use it for managing cyber risks within their respective organization. The top Ten threats of Bangladesh as per the report are as below:

Bangladesh Top Threats

1.

Spam

2.

Ransomware

3.

Phishing

4.

Malware

5.

Information leakage

6.

Insider threat

7.

Identity theft

8.

Web based attack

9.

Data breach

10.

Denial of Service

11.

Web application attacks

12.

Botnets

13.

Cryptojacking

14.

Physical manipulation/ damage/ theft/loss

15.

Cyber espionage

You can view the full report which is attached and from: https://www.cirt.gov.bd/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BD_CT_Landscape_2020_Final.pdf