April 2023 Cyber Attacks Timeline

After the cyber attacks timelines (part I and part II), it’s time to publish the statistics of April 2023 where I have collected and analyzed 341 events, a number that, for the second time in a row, beats the record of the previous month.

Cyber Crime leads the Motivations chart, but its percentage drops below 80% with a value lower than the previous month (75.1% vs 82.6%). The operations driven by Cyber Espionage are up to 12.3% from 9.3%, while Hacktivism grows to 7.6% from 5.1%  and Cyber Warfare records 8 events bringing its percentage to 2.3% from 1.4%.

Malware is always on top of the Attack Techniques, with 35.5% up from 32.3%,  ahead of Vulnerabilities that are still affected by a tail of events deriving from the massive exploitation of Fortra CVE-2023-0669, and hence confirm number two with 12% slightly down from 16.5% of the previous month; and Account Takeovers, continuing their decreasing trend to 8.2% from 10.5%.

The Target Distribution chart is led, once again, by campaigns against Multiple Organizations that continue the decreasing trend to 19.6% from  21%, ahead of Individuals (10.9%) and Public Admins down to 8.8% from 12%.

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