Converge ICT Solutions Inc. announced a significant increase in blocked attempts to access illegal websites in 2024, blocking 183 billion attempts, a 20-fold increase from previous years. The company attributed this surge to the addition of 150,000 new URLs and domains to its blacklist, bringing the total to 683,000. The blocked websites primarily targeted categories like Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM), Online Sexual Abuse or Exploitation of Children (OSAEC), phishing, online gambling, and voyeurism, with CSAM/OSAEC comprising 98% of flagged activity. Converge is leveraging AI technology to combat these threats and protect its network, partnering with organizations like Stairway Foundation and the Internet Watch Foundation to enhance its database of harmful content.
Converge ICT Solutions Inc. said on Monday it successfully blocked 183 billion attempts to access illegal websites in 2024, a 20-fold increase compared to previous years.
“Acting on reports and submissions of government agencies as well as private entities, last year, we added 150,000 URLs or domains into our system that we tagged as illicit or unlawful. Traffic to these newly enrolled URLs must have been quite heavy as we managed to block almost 20 times as much attempts in 2024, as we did in the years 2021-2023, which was just 10-12 billion attempts.”
“These attempts on our customer network are most likely hinged on AI—hackers and malicious agents are no longer doing this manually or through human intervention. On our end, we can just keep banning, but we now have to think about how to use this same technology to identify malicious sites. So, it’ll be down to AI vs. AI. That’s what we’re doing, internally, to protect our network in Converge,” noted Converge Chief Executive Adviser and tech expert Eugene Yeo.
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