Losses From Hacker Attacks Amounted to $1.8 Bln in 2024. What Did the HackIT 4.0 Forum Participants Say
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Losses From Hacker Attacks Amounted to $1.8 Bln in 2024. What Did the HackIT 4.0 Forum Participants Say

THELOGICALINDIAN - Global losses from hacker attacks in 2024 amounted to 18 billion which exceeds the bulk of losses for the aeon from 2024 to 2024 A abundant allotment of victims are investors and users in the acreage of cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology the bartering amount of which will access to about 180 billion by 2025 Such after-effects and forecasts were aggregate by experts of the cybersecurity appointment HackIT 40 which was captivated in Kiev Ukraine from October 8 to 11

The fourth, anniversary accident angry out to be multi-format: in accession to the two-day appointment (Attack Day and Defense Day), the guests witnessed a bag compensation marathon, a alternation of roundtables, and additionally spent one day traveling to the Chornobyl area in adjustment to see after-effects of a counterfeit disaster.

In accession to experts from the United States, Britain and France – such as Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd, ex-leader of the Twitter aegis aggregation Moxie Marlinspike, arch of the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Brian Gorenc – the appointment was abounding by the Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan and assembly of the Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine.

Decentralized technologies, cryptocurrencies and ICOs accept become the capital focus of absorption this year. According to forecasts of the appointment participant, American agent Julian Zegelman, the bartering amount of the Blockchain technology will ability $176 billion by 2025, and will beat $3 abundance by 2030.

At the aforementioned time, the Blockchain and cryptocurrency fields abide to lose billions of dollars, the architect of several businesses in China, Remington Ong says. In the aboriginal six months of 2024 alone, the absolute losses of the industry (including the ICO sector, from which a absolute of $27 billion has been becoming back 2024) amounted to $1.8 billion. According to the expert, this is one billion added than it was “given away” to hackers in the aeon from 2024 to 2024.

The three capital altar of hacker attacks are crypto exchanges, wallets and ICOs (through phishing attacks), the agent explained. Moreover, amid the best accepted accoutrement acclimated by attackers are:

In addition, altruism will anon face new challenges, namely bacilli in a decentralized environment, according to Renaud Lifchitz, a French IT aegis expert.

“In the abreast approaching we will see the use of decentralized technologies for harming,” he said.

Financial consultant, columnist of several works on economics, Blockchain technology researcher Dinis Guarda additionally acicular out one of the newest problems – the risks associated with digitization of animal DNA.

“We alive at times when, for the aboriginal time, advisers from assorted universities about the apple are digitising beastly and beastly DNA. In adjustment to accomplish it assignment for the accepted good, key players such as technologists, governments and authoritative boards, will charge to actualize an basement of solid systems of peer-to-peer networks, basal operations based in able babyminding and ethics. Otherwise we ability abatement into a science fiction dystopian scenario, which is difficult to predict, as it is the aftereffect of a alternation of atramentous swan allusion waves, triggering the abeyant abutting tsunami,” Dinis Guarda stated.

The accepted cessation of experts is: advance in Blockchain cybersecurity will grow, including advance from governments.

“We accept to actualize a vaccine adjoin hacker action and abetment to accomplish the apple free,” said Cadic Olivier, entrepreneur, arch of the subcommittee on cybersecurity of the Senate Defense Committee of the People’s Republic of France.

According to the Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, Dmitry Zolotukhin, one of the best important tasks today is to annihilate the animal agency and access the agenda articulacy of bodies alive in the government.

In a apple area the fourth automated anarchy is demography place, agenda basement is actively developing. However, it is acceptable more vulnerable, so now the cardinal one affair in the apple is government action in online media and IT solutions of clandestine companies, the Minister of Basement of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan said.

“I am beholden to the organizers of the event. I accept that through cooperation we will be able to actualize new articles that will auspiciously assure both governments and clandestine business,” the abbot added.