INFORMATION AND CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY OF SRI LANKA Incidents Reported Over the past few years, Sri Lanka CERT|CC has experienced a rapid increase in the number of cybersecurity related incidents reported to it. Reported incidents rose from 71 to 222 from 2010 to 2017. The number of reported social media related incidents, have also increased exponentially. It has ballooned from 80 incidents in 2010 to 3685 incidents FAST FACTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA RELATED INCIDENTS (2017) Use Facebook in Sri Lanka. This amounts to 63% of the total number of Internet users in Sri Lanka’. in 2017. Some facts as reported to Sri Lanka CERT|CC 2017 Growth in Cybersecurity related incidents fT Y 250 2 3685 Social Media Related Incidents Reported 200 150 118 100 XM 141 117 1 50 ZA f NS ‘ 2018 Fake Social Media Accounts 829 Incidents of Hacking Social Media Accounts 75 44 = 9° 416 Incidents on Photo Abuse Oo 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Phishing 08 08 12 14 23 42 Privacy 08 08 08 21 32 29 Scams 06 18 12 18 12 32 02 02 03 12 21 39 - - - 10 16 35 15 16 56 20 10 25 06 08 10 16 16 14 Intellectual 03 03 03 03 07 06 Unauthorized Access 01 11 08 - - - 06 03 Violation Malicious Software/ Ransomware Financial Frauds Compromise Websites Compromise Emails Property Violation DoS/DDoS Social Media Incidents N JX J 4 NS > of Incidents on 17 Incidents on yoer 54 Incidents on Misuse of Phone Numbers Videos 7 Copvriaht . Py g Violations Threatening and Cyberbullying . Pornographic Other 287 sak y, Growth in Social media related incidents 4000 3685 3500 3000 2500 2000 01 | 1100 01 1200 2250 | 2850 | 04 - 2200 3685 1500 1000 500 0 80 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017