IoT and OT security should be your top priority in the following months as threat actors are much more focused on disrupting operational functions and with the intent to stay dormant and monitor the network...
Critical infrastructure in North America falls under the spotlight of hackers/APT groups again with a rising sophistication and an increased volume of target cyberattacks. Primary sectors that must stay on...
Healthcare, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing faced the brunt of sophisticated cyberattacks that were perpetrated considering the critical nature of such segments of the industry and the likelihood of...
Ransomware, which once was a rare tactic used by APT groups is now a habitual go-to malware that anyone can purchase off the dark web for less than $50 or outsourced to groups that provide Ransomware as a...
Since our previous advisory, the threats impacting connected assets are now growing at alarming rates in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and the Americas regions. This threat is likely to persist in the coming...
Cyberattacks have grown significantly in the past week, impacting several nations in Latin America, and the Middle East region. This rising threat can easily be associated with a recent discovery made by...
Conti Ransomware as predicted accurately from our previous blog post is growing to be a much larger threat. Enterprises, Oil & Gas entities, and manufacturing segments of the industry are facing the brunt...
Campaigns to promote BumbleBee malware loader, a sophisticated malware downloader that can detect virtual environments, load multiple ransomware, and is highly stealthy dominated the threat landscape this...
Sectrio issues major cybersecurity alert for manufacturing and oil and gas companies Oil and Gas and auto manufacturing facilities need to be on their guard this week. Firms in these two sectors have to watch...
Attack volumes remain static while sophistication grows Attacks on some sectors grew in the week ending April 16th while some sectors recorded a decline in the number of cyberattacks logged by our global...
Cyberattacks continue more so than ever. In the United States, while all the focus continues on the ongoing geopolitical conflict, the increasing pace of targeted cyberattacks makes on the energy sector ramps...
In the past week, there were significant developments in cyberspace, with the spotlight on a ransomware group claiming successful cyberattacks and data breaches on high-profile tech companies and allegedly...
Ransomware, DDoS, and Botnet attacks made headlines in the past week. Sectrio has detected huge volumes of DDoS attacks taking down websites, primarily government-affiliated websites. Most of these attacks are...
Critical Infrastructure segments such as oil and gas, water, and wastewater treatment facilities, energy generation systems, and government bodies now bear the full brunt of cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks in...
Two events dominated the IoT and OT cyber threat landscape last week. We saw a large-scale attempt made by some hackers to divert traffic from residential complexes across the US, Europe, and APAC. This...
The unprovoked attack on Ukraine by Russia made headlines globally as shockwaves of panic across citizens of all nations fear of a global escalation that could lead into something our world has not seen for at...
Critical infrastructure sectors in the United States are on the highest alert and on the watch out for any cyber incidents following four cyber advisories asking all to have their shields up. These advisories...
The cyberattacks targeted at Ukraine and its allies have grown significantly in the past week over escalating geopolitical tensions with Russia and the United States. The cyberattacks are now showing signs...
As malicious cyber threat campaigns continue around the world, businesses, industrial establishments, and governments should ramp their efforts to implement zero-trust architecture across facilities. OT and...
The advisory issued on maintaining a high state of alert in cyberspace by Sectrio will apply to this week as well since we are not seeing any dip in the volume of cyberattacks across the globe. We are also...
As the tensions over Ukraine, Russia, and the United States continue to escalate, US CISA issued a major advisory for all businesses last week. The advisory warned of imminent threats to digital infrastructure...
Sectrio’s analysis of cyberattacks and online threats from January 3rd, 2022, shows an increased level of sophistication in cyberattacks targeting large Manufacturers and Oil and Gas Entities. Attacks...
On Friday, Jan 07th, there was a significant rise in cyber attacks registered by our golbal threat inteligence gathering network. Most of these attacks were directed towards SCADA and ICS. Attacks on IoT and...
Here’s wishing everyone a safe and secure 2022. As we begin the new year, unpatched vulnerabilities from the year gone by are returning to haunt us. While the volume of cyberattacks took a dip on the last day...
As the fatigue of the patching in vulnerability (Log4j) sets in during the holidays, the threat actors and other APT groups, unaware of the exploit, are now exploiting systems that remain unpatched. This new...
Instances of successful breaches are rising across global IoT and OT deployments as most SecOps teams are occupied with audits and other internal work as the year 2021 draws to a close. Hackers also seem to be...
As we enter the last month of the year, we are seeing hackers putting in additional efforts into creating breaches leveraging the upcoming holiday season. Sectrio could uncover the sheer advancements in the...
As the fears of a new covid variant begin to set in malware developers can be expected to align with the new level of confusion and anxiety this might cause. More importantly, with the rising fears about the...
OT and IoT cyberattacks continue to rise at a much higher rate as geo-political tensions rise in countries in the Middle East, Europe, and parts of South-Eastern Asia regions. Hackers are using malware and...
Cyberattacks across industries except oil and gas and manufacturing registered dips this week. The attacks on these two sectors registered a small rise which is again the lowest rise we have registered in over...
Cyberattacks on the oil and gas segment cooled down a bit after almost 200 days of rising consistently. Such a dip in attacks could mean the hackers are getting ready for more attacks or are revisiting their...
Cyberattacks on supply chain companies in USA and UK dominated the global cyberthreat landscape trends in the last week of October. As the cybersecurity awareness month ended, a spike in cyberattacks on this...
Hackers are stepping up attacks on global public safety and service infrastructure. This includes CCTV cameras, water and gas supply infrastructure, wastewater treatment facilities, and sensor systems...
BlackMatter ransomware was extensively detected by our honeypot networks across APAC, EMEA and North America last week. Financial services, manufacturing plants and oil and gas infrastructure were among the...
Cyberattacks are not showing any signs of abating during the global Cybersecurity Awareness Month. After registering a slight dip in the first week of October, the numbers rose significantly across regions and...
Cyberattacks globally showed a slight dip in the last week. This could be attributed to hackers redirecting their efforts towards improving the quality of malware In terms of IoT cybersecurity, new and more...
Reconnaissance attacks on IoT and OT installations showed a significant rise last week. This means: IoT and OT cybersecurity posture adopted by some of the targeted companies is not helping Hackers are...
Cyberattacks on IoT projects in the Asia-Pacific region and North America showed a minor rise this week. The countries affected were Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the USA, and Mexico. The attacks were...
Hit and run tactics deployed by hackers in the early part of this year has yielded rich dividends for hackers and cybercrime groups. Data stolen from a variety of industries continue to appear on the Dark Web...
Cyberattacks on the US and UK continue to grow for the fourth week running. Most of these attacks are coming from Eastern Europe and South-East Asia and are targeting manufacturing, utilities, and urban...
The US was the most attacked country in the world last week with most attacks coming from 3 sub-regions in Asia and one in Western Europe. 33 percent of all attacks were deep reconnaissance attacks targeting...
Australia was the most attacked country for the week ending July 11. Sectors targeted include healthcare, manufacturing, power grids, government agencies and educational institutions. Cyberattacks rose 11...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted a few days ago that the Covid-19 pandemic had provided hackers and other groups with a favorable situation to exploit. “As of May 28, 2020, the Internet Crime...
Outbound cyberattacks emerging from North Korea attributed to APT group Lazarus went down last week. The five countries that were constantly targeted by this group reported lesser attacks and the number of...
As cyberattacks on civic infrastructure continue to rise, cities have started getting ransom demands to prevent their data from being released on the dark web. Further, some cities also had to deal with their...
Geopolitical attacks dominated the cyberthreat landscape this week. Two regions viz., South Asia and the Middle East were at the epicenter of these attacks driven by APT groups and independent hackers acting...
Critical infrastructure continues to bear the brunt of growing hacker activity around the world. This week saw a 17 percent increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure as APT groups and individual...
As many countries came out of lockdown last week, hackers stepped up their attacks on target entities including manufacturing plants, medium businesses, and some government agencies. Attacks on healthcare...
APTs dominated the landscape this week as attacks on specific elements of critical infrastructure rose 33 percent over 5 days. Control systems connected with water treatment plants seem to be the primary...
This week witnessed less activity from APT groups but cybercriminals were active none the less trying to social engineer they way into a breach. Enterprises continue to be under pressure along with e-commerce...
Understanding how the cyber threat landscape changed in April As warned by us last week, the attacks on healthcare institutions and research labs continued in the week ending April 25th. The Trump...
Cyberattacks against global financial institutions, critical infrastructure, enterprises, and healthcare providers continue to rise. In the week ending April 18, several APT groups including at least one...
From ventilator manufacturers to health-care staff to leaders in government, business and the not-for-profit sector on the frontlines of the battle against Coronavirus, hackers have spared none in their...