I have decided to create a new timeline tracking the high-impact vulnerabilities targeting both remote access technologies and internet-facing servers, and exploited by cyber criminals to implant ransomware or, even worse, to accumulate compromised credentials to sell in the flourishing market of the initial access brokers.
I called it the perfect storm, since there might have been no worse period for these vulnerabilities to be exploited since, after the pandemic, remote access technologies such as VPN concentrators, are playing a fundamental role to let the distributed workforce access the internal resources, in many cases not conceived to be exposed directly in the internet.
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September 2023 Cyber Attacks StatisticsIn September 2023, cyber crime continued to lead with 77.1% of total events, but showed a decrease. Cyber Espionage grew to 11.6%, while Hacktivism significantly dropped. Malware remains the leading attack technique and multiple organizations are the top targets.
16-30 September 2023 Cyber Attacks TimelineThe second cyber attack timeline of September 2023 showed a decrease in events and a continuation of malware attacks. Massive hacks targeted fintech organizations like Mixin Network, and some breaches affected millions of individuals. The timeline also includes activities by various known and new threat ...
The Biggest Data Breaches of 2023Similarly to what I have done in 2022 and 2021, I am collecting the main mega breaches...
Leaky Buckets in 2023Similarly to what I have done in 2022 and 2021, I am collecting the incidents due to cloud misconfigurations and leading to...
August 2016 Cyber Attacks StatisticsIt's time to publish the statistics derived from the cyber attacks timelines of August (Part I and Part II), a month particularly active from an Information Security perspective, despite the Summer time. As always, let’s start from the Daily Trend Chart, which shows obviously an ...
