The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) within the Asia Pacific economies on 25th August, 2021.
The theme of this year’s APCERT Drill is “Supply Chain Attack Through Spear-Phishing - Beware of Working from Home -.” This exercise reflects real incidents and issues that exist on the Internet. The participants handled a case of a supply chain attack triggered by spear phishing.
This drill included the need for the teams to interact locally and internationally, with CSIRTs/CERTs and targeted organizations, for coordinated suspension of malicious infrastructure, analysis of malicious code, as well as notification and assistance to affected entities. This incident response exercise, which was coordinated across many economies, reflects the collaboration amongst the economies in mitigating cyber threats and validates the enhanced communication protocols, technical capabilities and quality of incident responses that APCERT fosters in assuring Internet security and safety.
25 CSIRTs from 19 economies of APCERT (Australia, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, People's Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Vietnam) participated in the drill. From the external parties, CSIRTs from 2 economies (Kazakhstan and Tunisia) of OIC-CERT and AfricaCERT participated.
