Singapore's cybersecurity performance weakened in 2019

Nearly one in 10 mobile phones were infected with malware.

Singapore’s cybersecurity score worsened to 15.29 in 2020, compared to 15.13 in 2019, according to a study by Comparitech. Despite this, it dropped ten places to ranking 61st amongst 76 countries worldwide in terms of cybersecurity risks.

In Singapore, 9.97% of mobile phones and 6.67% of computers were found to be infected with malware, whilst 0.5% saw financial malware attacks. About 0.35% of users saw attacks by cryptominers. Only 0.18% of telnet attacks originated from the city.

In terms of up-to-date legislation, the city covered four out of seven categories. These categories are national strategy, military, content, privacy, critical infrastructure, commerce, and crime.

Globally, most countries saw improvement in their scores, with only the United States, Brazil, Japan, France, Iran, and Singapore showing worse scores than the previous year. Denmark showed to be the most secure country, whilst Algeria was the least secure. In Asia, Japan was the least at risk.

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