March 2023 Cyber Attacks Statistics

After the cyber attacks timelines (part I and part II), it’s time to publish the statistics of March 2023 where I have collected and analyzed 334 events, which beats the record of the previous month.

Cyber Crime leads the Motivations chart, once again above 80% with a value slightly lower, but always in line with the previous month (82.6% vs. 83.7%). The operations driven by Cyber Espionage are stable at 9.3% (it was 9.2%) while Hacktivism records a small increase to 5.1% from 4% from 6.4% and Cyber Warfare is stable at 1.4% from 1.2%.

Malware is always on top of the Attack Techniques, but its value drops to 32.3% from 40%  ahead of Vulnerabilities that, thanks to the massive exploitation of Fortra CVE-2023-0669, jump at number two with 16.5& (it was 7.4% in February); and Account Takeovers, down to 10.5% from 20.9%.

The Target Distribution chart is led, once again, by campaigns against Multiple Organizations, slightly down to 21% from 25.5%, and ahead of Public Admins (12%) and Healthcare with 10.5% (it was exactly the same value in February).

Check out the interactive charts and the statistics, also available as an infographic.