Exploits, Botnets & Malware Spiked in Q1: Nuspire

Nuspire has just released their Q1 2023 Threat Report. 

The quarterly report provides a comprehensive analysis of the threat landscape, examining threat data as well as specific tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) organizations should watch out for.  Notable findings from the report include: 

  • Exploit activity grew by more than 150% in Q1 2023, with brute forcing far and away as the most popular tactic, followed by Apache Log4j.  
  • Malware jumped nearly 40% in Q1, with JavaScript and Microsoft variants clocking in the most activity.  
  • Botnets jumped almost 60% in Q1, and two new offenders emerged as top contenders: NetSupport RAT and FatalRAT. 

The report is available linked here,

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