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New Threat Intelligence Report Provides Actionable Intelligence Against Cyberattacks


In today’s world scenario, it has become a prime requirement for security experts to expand their focus on vulnerabilities that the innovative technologies may possess. They must build expertise when it comes to managing security risk, which can be acquired by a continuous analysis on global threat landscape and study the affects of a business’ decisions on its threat profile. Likewise, business heads must also put efforts into attaining awareness of their security posture, risk exposure and cyber-defense tactics that can subsequently impact their business operations.

BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report

According to the report, modern business leaders get an easy access to this information. The global BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team provided an actionable intelligence on attacks, threat actors and campaigns. The report was based on the telemetry obtained from Blackerry’s AI-based products and analytical capabilities, supplemented by other public and private intelligence sources. This allows you to make informed decisions and take prompt, effective action.

Mentioned below, are some of the key highlights of the ‘Global Threat Intelligence Report’: 

  • 90 days by the numbers: In order to create the intelligence report, the team surveyed more than 1.5 million stopped cyberattacks that has occurred between the period Dec. 1, 2022 and Feb. 28, 2023. 
  • Top 10 countries experiencing cyberattacks during this period: The US continues to lead in the percentage of attacks that were thwarted. Brazil has just overtaken Canada as the second most frequently targeted nation, with Japan and Canada following. However, the danger landscape has altered. Singapore made its debut appearance in the top 10. 
  • Most targeted industries by number of attacks: The telemetry shows that consumers in finance, healthcare services, and retailing of food and essentials were the targets of 60% of all malware-based attacks. 
  • Most common weapons: The most often utilized tools were droppers, downloaders, remote access tools (RATs), and ransomware. A targeted attack employing the Warzone RAT against a Taiwanese semiconductor business, cybercriminal gangs using Agent Tesla and RedLine Infostealer, and increased use of BlackCat ransomware were all things BlackBerry noted during the data gathering period. 

  • Industry-specific attacks: During this time, the healthcare sector had a sizable number of cyberattacks. This report also goes in-depth on attacks against manufacturing, critical infrastructure, financial institutions, and other key targets of sophisticated and occasionally state-sponsored threat actors engaged in espionage and intellectual property campaigns. However, as this analysis reveals, these crucial sectors are also frequently affected by crimeware and commodity malware.

Moreover, the report also provided actionable defensive countermeasures that a business could adopt, against some of the most notable threat actors, cyber weapons and attacks that they have mentioned. The defenses are apparently in the form of MITRE ATT&CK® and MITRE D3FEND™ mappings.  

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Netwrix Reports: Enterprises Experience More Cyber Security Incidents Than Smaller Organizations


Cybersecurity company Netwrix, that makes data security simple, has revealed further findings for the enterprise sector (organizations with more than 1,000 workers) in its recent annual global 2023 Hybrid Security Trends Report.

As per the reports, around 65% of the companies surveyed in the enterprise sector experienced a cyberattack in the previous 12 months, which is very identical to the figure of 68% of businesses of all sizes. Some of the most frequently occurring cyber security incidents includes phishing, ransomware and user account invasions.

However, larger firms are more frequently the target of ransomware or other malware attacks: 48% of enterprises reported such a security incident on site, compared to 37% of all organizations. In the cloud, malware attacks are less frequent with only 21% of respondents in the enterprise sector reported having encountered one in the previous year.

In regards to this, Dmitry Sotnikov, Vice-President of Product Management at Netwrix says “It is no surprise that the enterprise sector suffers malware attacks at a higher rate than smaller organizations. After all, ransomware operators want to maximize their profits, so they consider which organizations are most able to pay a ransom to reduce business downtime — and the larger an organization is, the costlier an operational disruption will be[…]On the other hand, larger organizations have more tools to spot the attack that might stay unnoticed for SMBs. In addition, enterprises have bigger infrastructure with more endpoints that statistically increases the chance of the security incident.”

Moreover, it has also been reported by the enterprise sector that, in comparison to their small peers, they claims higher costs as a result of cyberattacks. In fact, 28% of businesses reported that cyberthreats had cost them $50,000 or more in lost revenue, compared to just 16% of all organizations.

Dirk Schrader, Vice-President of Security Research at Netwrix says, "Smaller companies often underestimate their risk of attack, reasoning that cybercriminals tend to target enterprises because they store more intellectual property (IP) and other sensitive data. But our survey shows that organizations suffer cyberattacks with a similar frequency regardless of their size[…]Every organization has valuable data, such as customer and employee information, and is therefore a target for attackers. What's more, SMBs are not only a target on their own but as a way into the larger enterprises that consume their services."  

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