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In the first cyber attacks timeline of March 2023 I collected 152 events (10.13 events/day), a number that, unsurprisingly, confirms the high level of activity that is accompanying us over the course of this 2023.

Ransomware-driven events slide at 21.7% from 24.6% (33 out of 152 events), whilst 19 events were characterized by the exploitation of vulnerabilities (corresponding to 12.5% vs 8% of the previous timeline), an increase mainly due to the ongoing exploitation of the CVE-2023-0669 Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability.

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Multi-million losses continued to affect the fintech sector, with Euler Finance suffering a flash loan attack leading to the theft of $197 million worth in multiple digital assets. Other fintech organizations targeted in the same period included Algodex and Poolz Finance.

And the season of the mega breaches has just begun apparently: victims in this fortnight included: HDB Financial Services (72 million records affected), an undisclosed marketing vendor working for AT&T and other organizations (9 million records affected), Independent Living Systems (around 4 million records), and Zoll Medical (one million). Other high-profile victims included ACER that suffered the leak of 160 Gb.

The Cyber Espionage front is always hot, with multiple campaigns unearthed in the first half of March, and carried out by known threat actors such as: APT27, APT28, APT29, Mustang Panda, Sharp Panda, the Tick, and Transparent Tribe, but also new players, such as UNC2970, UNC4540, and Yoro Trooper. The Iranian group Cobalt Illusion also launched a campaign against female human rights activists.

And as always, this brief summary is closed by a quick mention to the DDos attacks launched by the pro-Russian hacktivists of NoName057(16) that were directed against several government websites in Poland and Italy.

My suggestion is always the same: browse the timeline, and obviously thanks for sharing it and supporting my work in spreading the risk awareness across the community. As always, don’t forget to follow @paulsparrows on Twitter, or even connect on Linkedin, for the latest updates.

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