The Cryptologic Center and the National Cybersecurity Institute detected last year 150.000 computer incidents in Spanish cyberspace, receiving a critical attack every four days.
Without going too far back in time, this March it was reported that a virus had run free through the Ministry of Defense systems for three months. The government claims that it is an attack by a foreign power.
On the other hand, From the Andalusian Government it has been verified that security problems have multiplied by 10 in
six years. In 2018 more than 8.000 incidents involving malicious code,
fraud and intrusions. This figure implies that threats have increased
in the Andalusian community a 32% in just 12 months.
According to the director of the National Security Department, Joaquín Castellón, the cyberattacks the most common ones are ransomware, data theft, denial of service, website crashes and
alteration of web pages, espionage and device hacking.