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After the cyber attacks timelines (part I and part II), it’s time to publish the statistics for October 2024 where I collected and analyzed 240 events.

During October 2024, Cyber Crime continued to lead the Motivations chart with 68%, up from 62.7% of September. Operations driven by Cyber Espionage ranked at number two with 13.3% down from 18.5%, and stopping, at least for the moment, the increasing trend. Hacktivism jumped ad number three with 5.8% (from 1.7%) ahead of Cyber Warfare with 5.4% down from 6.2%.

In October (as always), malware led the Attack Techniques with 26.3% up from 20.5%, once again followed by ransomware with 14.4% (it was 16.2%). Targeted attacks ranked at number three with 11.1%.

Phishing emails (19.2%), the exploitation of vulnerabilities in publicly exposed apps (4.8%), misconfigrations and vulnerable security appliances (4.4%) led the Initial Access chart.

The Distribution of Targets was led again by Multiple Organizations with 20.4% (it was 18.8%), ahead of governments (12.6%, it was 9.6% in September) and Individuals slightly up to 11.1% from 10.2%.

As always bear in mind that the sample refers exclusively to the attacks included in my timelines, available from public sources such as blogs and news sites. Obviously the sample cannot be complete, but only aims to provide an high level overview of the threat landscape.

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