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Cyber attacks: decline in the DACH region

March 11, 2024

There were fewer cyberattacks in Q4 2023 than in the same quarter of 2022. However, ransomware attacks have increased. Wholesale and retail trade in particular were attacked more frequently. The education sector remains the frontrunner. Check Point Research has published its new statistics on cyberattacks for Q4 2023 and takes a look at the overall situation in 2023. 1 in 10 organizations worldwide affected by an attempted ransomware attack The clearest message: The number of ransomware attacks fell in many countries Cyberattacks decreased compared to Q4 2022, but ransomware attacks increased sharply. In the year…

Top malware: Qbot resurrected in December

March 5, 2024

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In December 2023, Nanocore was at number one on the malware charts, Qbot was back and the most frequently attacked industry was education and research, ahead of healthcare. Check Point® Software Technologies has released its December 2023 Global Threat Index. This month, the Qbot malware was used by hackers as part of a phishing attack targeting businesses in the hospitality industry. In the campaign, hackers impersonated the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and sent fraudulent emails with PDF attachments containing embedded URLs and containing a Microsoft installer...

Emotet & Co.: The malware charts in Q4-2023

23 December 2023

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In Q4 2023, the remote access Trojan Nanocore was in first place in the malware top ten in Germany. But Emotet and Formbook are still massively active. The education sector was the most frequently attacked. Check Point has released its Q4 Global Threat Index (October 2023). First place in Germany is now occupied by Nanocore, a remote access Trojan that targets users of Windows operating systems and was first observed in 2013. The threat landscape was highly fragmented in October, with only three malware families whose influence exceeded the 1 percent mark. The well-known pests Emotet take second and third place...

Cyber threat: Rhysida ransomware

September 23, 2023

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Rhysida ransomware's tactics and techniques are similar to those of the infamous Vice Society ransomware gang. Experts suspect that Vice Society is using its own variant of ransomware. Security researchers from the Threat Intelligence Department of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) link the malware to a notorious ransomware gang. The procedures are the same in many ways, as Check Point's Incident Response Team reported. This doesn't mean that Vice Society is using the new ransomware exclusively, but probably mainly. Attacks on Healthcare and Education Vice Society is one of the most aggressive ransomware gangs so far since 2021…

Cyber attacks: Cities and municipalities increasingly targeted

September 1, 2023

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Attacks on municipalities, healthcare and education have doubled since August 2022. This is what the Barracuda ransomware report reports. Barracuda has released the results of its fifth annual ransomware report. As the basis for the report, the cloud security specialist identified and analyzed 175 publicly reported attacks from the last 12 months. A worrying finding of the report is that successful ransomware attacks in the three social sectors of municipalities, education and healthcare have more than quadrupled since 2021. Attacks on finance are declining. Attacks on cities and municipalities increased between August 2022 and July...

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Cyber attacks: decline in the DACH region

Top malware: Qbot resurrected in December

Emotet & Co.: The malware charts in Q4-2023

Cyber threat: Rhysida ransomware

Cyber attacks: Cities and municipalities increasingly targeted

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