The Philippine Army said its cyber security measures remain intact despite logging more than 1.2 million attempted attacks to its cyberspace in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Army spokesperson Col. Louie Dema-ala said they recorded several cyber attacks within the infrastructure of its network.

The Army logged 1,423 network attacks in October, which significantly increased in November with 4,001 and 6,242 in December last year.

Hackers also targeted specific applications or services that are running on a server or within the Army’s cyber network, with service attacks totaling 1,281,415.

Of the figure, 45,310 attacks were logged in October 2024, which also vastly increased to 599,212 in November and 636,893 in December.

“All of these attacks were blocked by the Army’s cyber security protocols. Despite these attacks, the Army network remains secure,” Dema-ala told DAILY TRIBUNE in a Viber message on Friday.

In another interview, Army Chief Lt. Gen. Roy Galido stressed the need to promote awareness and cyber protection not only within the military organization, but even in private institutions to prevent breaches of cyber security walls.

“We, all of us, have to understand that breaches of cyber security will not only affect the military but even ordinary Filipinos. There are several aspects of cyber security that, if you look at it deeply, isn’t in the purview of the military,” he said.

Galido lamented that hackers are blatantly utilizing cyberspace in their scamming activities and other fraudulent transactions.

“Any cyber attack, whether it is focused on the military or within our country, there’s an impact on the stability of our country,” he added.

Galido said the Philippine Army’s efforts against cyber attacks are proceeding as planned, stressing that they had not experienced any cyber attacks that caused damage or disruption to their service.

“We are on track in our campaign, we are on track in our development program, and we haven’t felt [the success of] any cyber attack. So that’s an indication that we are doing well, because we are able to monitor them and counter them,” he said.