Prime Cyberattacks Revealed in New Menace Intelligence Report

We acknowledge that in as we speak’s world, safety leaders should increase their focus past applied sciences and their vulnerabilities. To successfully handle danger, safety leaders should frequently analyze the worldwide menace panorama and perceive how enterprise choices can affect their group’s menace profile. Equally, enterprise leaders require consciousness of their safety posture, danger publicity, and cyber-defense technique that may have an effect on enterprise operations.

By means of the “BlackBerry International Menace Intelligence Report,” trendy leaders can have well timed entry to this necessary data. Primarily based on the telemetry obtained from our personal synthetic intelligence (AI)-driven merchandise and analytical capabilities, and complemented by different private and non-private intelligence sources, our world BlackBerry Menace Analysis and Intelligence workforce gives actionable intelligence about assaults, menace actors, and campaigns as a way to make well-informed choices and take immediate, efficient actions.

That is exactly what we’ve labored to distill into the concise quarterly report that I’m happy to launch publicly as we speak. To create this new “International Menace Intelligence Report,” the workforce analyzed greater than 1.5 million stopped cyberattacks, occurring between Dec. 1, 2022, and Feb. 28, 2023. Under are a few of the highlights.

Key Report Highlights

• 90 days by the numbers: From December 2022 to February 2023, we noticed as much as 12 assaults per minute, and the variety of distinctive assaults utilizing new malware samples skyrocketed by 50%— from one per minute within the earlier report back to 1.5 per minute throughout this reporting interval.
• Prime 10 nations experiencing cyberattacks throughout this era: The US stays the nation with the best variety of stopped assaults. Nonetheless, the menace panorama has modified, and Brazil has simply emerged because the second most-targeted nation, adopted by Canada and Japan. Singapore entered the highest 10 for the primary time.
• Most focused industries by variety of assaults: In accordance with BlackBerry telemetry, 60% of all malware-based cyberattacks focused clients within the monetary sector, healthcare providers, and meals and staples retailing industries.
• Commonest weapons: Droppers, downloaders, distant entry instruments (RATs), and ransomware had been most steadily used. In the course of the information assortment interval, BlackBerry noticed: a focused assault utilizing Warzone RAT towards a Taiwanese semiconductor producer; cybercriminal teams utilizing Agent Tesla and RedLine Infostealer; and widened use of BlackCat ransomware.
• Trade-specific assaults: The healthcare trade confronted a major variety of cyberattacks throughout this durations. Moreover, this report dives deep into assaults towards monetary establishments, authorities entities, manufacturing, and important infrastructure, key sectors which might be typically focused by refined and typically state-sponsored menace actors, participating in espionage and mental property campaigns. Nonetheless, as we reveal on this report, crimeware and commodity malware are additionally typically present in these essential industries

The report additionally covers notable menace actors and cyber weapons, most consequential assaults, and — most significantly — it additionally gives actionable defensive countermeasures, within the type of MITRE ATT&CK® and MITRE D3FEND™ mappings deployed throughout this era. Lastly, we provide an evaluation of the forecasting accuracy of our earlier report, and a listing of insightful key takeaways primarily based on the occasions of the previous months.

We hope that you’ll worth all of the detailed and actionable information introduced on this new report. As soon as once more, I want to specific my gratitude to the authors, the extremely expert world researchers on the BlackBerry Menace Analysis and Intelligence workforce. Their ongoing efforts to provide cutting-edge analysis empower us to repeatedly enhance BlackBerry’s data- and Cylance® AI-driven services and products.

To study extra, obtain the “International Menace Intelligence Report.”

Concerning the Writer

Ismael Valenzuela is VP of Menace Analysis & Intelligence at BlackBerry, the place he leads menace analysis, intelligence, and defensive innovation. Ismael has participated as a safety skilled in initiatives throughout the globe for over 20+ years, and founding father of one of many first IT safety consultancies in Spain.

A cybersecurity professional with robust technical background and deep information of penetration testing, safety architectures, intrusion detection, and pc forensics. Ismael has supplied safety consultancy, and steerage to giant authorities and personal organizations, together with main EU establishments and US authorities companies.