We acknowledge that in at the moment’s world, safety leaders should increase their focus past applied sciences and their vulnerabilities. To successfully handle threat, safety leaders should regularly analyze the worldwide risk panorama and perceive how enterprise choices can affect their group’s risk profile. Equally, enterprise leaders require consciousness of their safety posture, threat publicity, and cyber-defense technique that may have an effect on enterprise operations.

By way of the “BlackBerry World Menace Intelligence Report,” fashionable leaders can have well timed entry to this essential data. Based mostly on the telemetry obtained from our personal synthetic intelligence (AI)-driven merchandise and analytical capabilities, and complemented by different private and non-private intelligence sources, our international BlackBerry Menace Analysis and Intelligence crew offers actionable intelligence about assaults, risk actors, and campaigns so to make well-informed choices and take immediate, efficient actions.

That is exactly what we have now labored to distill into the concise quarterly report that I’m happy to launch publicly at the moment. To create this new “World Menace Intelligence Report,” the crew analyzed greater than 1.5 million stopped cyberattacks, occurring between Dec. 1, 2022, and Feb. 28, 2023. Under are among the highlights.

Key Report Highlights

• 90 days by the numbers: From December 2022 to February 2023, we noticed as much as 12 assaults per minute, and the variety of distinctive assaults utilizing new malware samples skyrocketed by 50%— from one per minute within the earlier report back to 1.5 per minute throughout this reporting interval.
• Prime 10 international locations experiencing cyberattacks throughout this era: The US stays the nation with the best variety of stopped assaults. Nonetheless, the risk panorama has modified, and Brazil has simply emerged because the second most-targeted nation, adopted by Canada and Japan. Singapore entered the highest 10 for the primary time.
• Most focused industries by variety of assaults: In accordance with BlackBerry telemetry, 60% of all malware-based cyberattacks focused clients within the monetary sector, healthcare providers, and meals and staples retailing industries.
• Most typical weapons: Droppers, downloaders, distant entry instruments (RATs), and ransomware have been most often used. Throughout the knowledge assortment interval, BlackBerry noticed: a focused assault utilizing Warzone RAT in opposition to a Taiwanese semiconductor producer; cybercriminal teams utilizing Agent Tesla and RedLine Infostealer; and widened use of BlackCat ransomware.
• Business-specific assaults: The healthcare business confronted a big variety of cyberattacks throughout this intervals. Moreover, this report dives deep into assaults in opposition to monetary establishments, authorities entities, manufacturing, and significant infrastructure, key sectors which can be typically focused by refined and typically state-sponsored risk actors, participating in espionage and mental property campaigns. Nonetheless, as we reveal on this report, crimeware and commodity malware are additionally typically present in these crucial industries

The report additionally covers notable risk actors and cyber weapons, most consequential assaults, and — most significantly — it additionally offers actionable defensive countermeasures, within the type of MITRE ATT&CK® and MITRE D3FEND™ mappings deployed throughout this era. Lastly, we provide an evaluation of the forecasting accuracy of our earlier report, and an inventory of insightful key takeaways primarily based on the occasions of the previous months.

We hope that you’ll worth all of the detailed and actionable knowledge offered on this new report. As soon as once more, I want to categorical my gratitude to the authors, the extremely expert international researchers on the BlackBerry Menace Analysis and Intelligence crew. Their ongoing efforts to supply cutting-edge analysis empower us to repeatedly enhance BlackBerry’s data- and Cylance® AI-driven services and products.

To study extra, obtain the “World Menace Intelligence Report.”

Concerning the Writer

Ismael Valenzuela is VP of Menace Analysis & Intelligence at BlackBerry, the place he leads risk analysis, intelligence, and defensive innovation. Ismael has participated as a safety skilled in tasks throughout the globe for over 20+ years, and founding father of one of many first IT safety consultancies in Spain.

A cybersecurity skilled with sturdy technical background and deep information of penetration testing, safety architectures, intrusion detection, and pc forensics. Ismael has offered safety consultancy, and steerage to giant authorities and personal organizations, together with main EU establishments and US authorities businesses.