Morocco Ramps Up Cybersecurity Efforts as Digital Threats Escalate

Morocco is increasingly exposed to cybercrime, which can wreak havoc and cause colossal damage. The security services have made the fight against this scourge of the 21st century a priority.
The target of several cybercrime attacks, the kingdom has deployed a major national strategy with regard to cybersecurity. However, criminal offenses against or by means of an information and communication system, mainly the Internet, are becoming more and more frequent, according to the DGSN review.
According to the police department, cyberspace "continues to grow and integrate a multitude of services and therefore, opportunities to commit crimes in total anonymity and by targeting a large number of victims, in record time," notes the DGSN review. "The majority of cybercrimes can be summarized as financial gains, espionage or cyberespionage, ideological indoctrination, harassment, etc., but crimes for purely lucrative purposes remain the most predominant," it stressed.
"The Internet has become the arena of expression par excellence, where disinformation has found its place," it was added, noting that "the real danger of future cybercrime lies in the darkweb or deepweb, this invisible part of the Net that far exceeds the indexed surface web (classic Internet) and is growing exponentially, and which contains information invisible to the surface web, with illegal activities, such as child pornography, money laundering, identity theft, the black market for weapons, drugs, to name but a few."
The darkweb, it is detailed, "uses excessive encryption and masks IP addresses, making them difficult to identify. Even worse, cybercriminals are organizing, recruiting new members and selling their know-how."
Despite the emergence of these very real threats, "hope is placed on deep learning and artificial intelligence, to improve cybersecurity in cyberspace, which can detect abnormal behaviors much faster than the human being, thus constituting a valuable tool for cyber-police officers to anticipate cyberattacks," concluded the DGSN.
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