2023 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report Casts New Light on Shifting Front Lines, Threat Actor Behavior
- Written by Viw Magazine
- Overall malware up 2%, with surges in IoT malware (+87%) and cryptojacking (+43%)
- Ransomware attacks dipped 25% globally, but 2022 still second-highest year on record for global ransomware attempts (493.3 million)
- Education (+157%), finance (+86%) and retail (+50%) verticals hit hardest by malware
- Ukraine saw record levels of malware (25.6 million) and ransomware (7.1 million)
- In APAC, malware climbs (+38%), with cryptojacking spiking (+129%) and IoT Attacks up (+73%)
- SonicWall discovered 465,501 'never-before-seen' malware variants in 2022
- Intrusion attempts against Log4j vulnerabilities eclipsed 1 billion
