According to Perception Point’s 2023 Annual Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights report, researchers observed a 356% growth in the number of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors with the total number of attacks increasing by 87% in 2022.
Also, password-protected malware saw a trend in 2022, with attackers using encryption to protect their payloads and evade detection. Possibly correlating to the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in March attacks increased tenfold to that of the February and then in October the numbers tripled that of September.
Furthermore, with email and browsers remaining the leading attack vectors, threat actors have adapted to organizations’ widespread adoption of cloud collaboration apps, storage and productivity services, with 2022 experiencing a 161% surge in attacks on cloud services.
Overall, other notable figures from the report include:
- Malware accounted for 28.6% of incidents behind phishing (67.4%)
- BEC attacks grew by 83%
- Phone scam attacks made a comeback by 363%
- Microsoft was most impersonated in emails – 3.3x more than the next most copied LinkedIn
Ted Miracco, CEO, Approov Mobile Security had this comment:
“The statistics are no surprise and only the beginning. The revolution in large language model (LLM) AI is opening up a whole new world for phishing attacks, increasing both the ease and sophistication of attacks. Sadly, these attackers are going to be wildly successful and as a consequence the number of attacks will continue to grow, as appropriate defenses are not yet in place. Businesses will be targeted, and as they become more sophisticated in the defense against Phishing, it will be redirected at consumers or high-net worth individuals. Most discouraging about these attacks is the victims who will be the most vulnerable, including seniors, who are often targeted, especially with the ‘Microsoft’ impersonating version of these scams.”
Given that I spend a lot of time and effort to fight threats like these, this is a very sobering report. I along with anyone who lives in this space is going to have a difficult time over the next year or two based on this.
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Phishing Attacks Surge 356% And Cloud Service Attacks 161% – Perception Point
According to Perception Point’s 2023 Annual Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights report, researchers observed a 356% growth in the number of advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors with the total number of attacks increasing by 87% in 2022.
Also, password-protected malware saw a trend in 2022, with attackers using encryption to protect their payloads and evade detection. Possibly correlating to the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in March attacks increased tenfold to that of the February and then in October the numbers tripled that of September.
Furthermore, with email and browsers remaining the leading attack vectors, threat actors have adapted to organizations’ widespread adoption of cloud collaboration apps, storage and productivity services, with 2022 experiencing a 161% surge in attacks on cloud services.
Overall, other notable figures from the report include:
Ted Miracco, CEO, Approov Mobile Security had this comment:
“The statistics are no surprise and only the beginning. The revolution in large language model (LLM) AI is opening up a whole new world for phishing attacks, increasing both the ease and sophistication of attacks. Sadly, these attackers are going to be wildly successful and as a consequence the number of attacks will continue to grow, as appropriate defenses are not yet in place. Businesses will be targeted, and as they become more sophisticated in the defense against Phishing, it will be redirected at consumers or high-net worth individuals. Most discouraging about these attacks is the victims who will be the most vulnerable, including seniors, who are often targeted, especially with the ‘Microsoft’ impersonating version of these scams.”
Given that I spend a lot of time and effort to fight threats like these, this is a very sobering report. I along with anyone who lives in this space is going to have a difficult time over the next year or two based on this.
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