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In the first half of April 2023 I collected 157 events (corresponding to 10.47 events/day). Despite the number is decreasing compared to the second timeline of March (a side effect of the exploitation at scale of the CVE-2023-0669 Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability), the values remain quite high.

As an obvious consequence, the percentage of events caused by ransomware attacks went down to 27.38% (43 out of 157 events) vs. 30.1% (54 out of 179 events) of the  previous timeline.

And as an additional obvious consequence, the impact of vulnerabilities played a part in 18 out of 157 events corresponding to 11.46%, half the value of the previous timeline, 23.7% corresponding to 42 out of 177 events, and close to the first timeline of March.

Multi-million losses continued to plague the fintech sector, it is impossible to summarize all the entities that suffered losses in this fortnight (browse the timeline for the details), but the good news is that in some cases the attackers returned the stolen funds in exchange of a reward.

In terms of  mega breaches there is just one remarkable event, and is the compromise of the details of 55 million Thai citizens, after the breach of an unnamed government agency by a threat actor calling themselves 9Near.

The Cyber Espionage front was always hot, with multiple campaigns unearthed also in the first half of April, and carried out by known threat actors such as the usual APT29, APT36, APT41, Archipelago (a subset of APT43), Vixen Panda, Mantis, and other unidentified or less known groups such as UAC-0145, which targeted an undisclosed Ukrainian utility company.

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) and Killnet that were directed respectively against several government websites in Finland, and Rheinmetall, a German automotive and arms manufacturer. But also Anonymous Sudan launched some DDoS attacks against targets in Israel and India, and finally the

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