BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 23. The number of blocked computer threats in the Azerbaijani AzStateNet network reached 49,064 from January through February 2023, the Center for Combating Computer Incidents (CERT) told Trend.
"The number of threats blocked based on URLs amounted to 20,318; the centralized anti-virus system (CAS) - 5,901, and 28,746 were blocked by the so-called sandbox system (a specially isolated environment for the safe execution of computer programs)," CERT said.
The number of URL-based threats increased by 2.5 times in 2022, the centralized antivirus system - 18.67 percent, and the sandbox - more than 5 times.
Furthermore, in 2022, the number of threats blocked based on URLs amounted to 96,085, the centralized anti-virus system (CAS) - 37,287, and by the sandbox system - 222,860.
AzStateNet (Azerbaijan State Network) is a set of geographically distributed networks and access servers belonging to organizations with the status of state authority.