{"id":47458,"date":"2024-02-19T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/?p=47458"},"modified":"2026-03-28T05:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:10:13","slug":"network-infrastructure-was-a-prime-target-for-cyber-threats-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saudishopper.com.sa\/en\/network-infrastructure-was-a-prime-target-for-cyber-threats-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Infrastructure Was a Prime Target for Cyber Threats in 2023\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Healthcare was the top targeted industry this year, as adversaries maintained their focus on entities with cybersecurity&nbsp;weaknesses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Commodity loaders are still being used to deliver ransomware threats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sharp increases in activity often corresponded with major geopolitical events<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia &#8211; 19 February 2024<\/strong>:&nbsp;Cisco Talos&nbsp;Intelligence Group,&nbsp;one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world,&nbsp;released its annual report, titled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/content\/files\/2023\/12\/2023_Talos_Year_In_Review.pdf\"><em>Cisco Talos: Year in Review 2023<\/em><\/a><em>\u2019<\/em>. The report highlights the most common attacks, targets, and other significant trends&nbsp;across the threat landscape in 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings show that suspicious network traffic captured by Cisco Security products revealed sharp increases in activity often corresponded with major geopolitical events and global cyberattacks. The report also revealed that LockBit maintained its position as the top global ransomware threat for the second consecutive year, with healthcare emerging as the primary target due to funding constraints and low downtime tolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commenting on the report\u2019s findings,&nbsp;<strong>Fady Younes, Senior Director for Cybersecurity at Cisco in the Middle East and Africa, said<\/strong>: \u201cTalos yearly report contains a wealth of insights about how the threat landscape has shifted. With the complexity of cybercrimes that is mounting every year, we are proud of Cisco\u2019s global presence and Talos\u2019 world-class expertise that is providing us with a massive amount of data to research \u2014 endpoint detections, incident response engagements, network traffic, and much more. This data is available for our customers and partners to support our efforts in strengthening cybersecurity resilience in the region.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top Threats Observed in 2023 include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Network Infrastructure Threats<\/strong>: Talos observed an increase in sophisticated attacks on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">networking devices this past year, particularly by state-sponsored actors seeking to advance espionage objectives and facilitate stealthy operations. Exploitation of vulnerabilities and weak credentials remains a persistent concern, with three of the five most targeted device vulnerabilities being critical or severe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ransomware and Pre-Ransomware Incidents<\/strong>: Ransomware and pre-ransomware incidents continue to affect customers at a consistent rate \u2014 totaling the same 20 percent of Talos IR incidents as last year \u2014 with health care being the most targeted vertical. LockBit continues to dominate the ransomware landscape, and affiliates accounted for more than 25 percent of the total number of victim posts on data leak sites across some 40 ransomware groups monitored by Talos IR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Telemetry Trends<\/strong>: Cisco&#8217;s telemetry revealed increased suspicious network traffic during major geopolitical events. Common file extensions were abused, and well-known brands were spoofed, highlighting the use of social engineering for operations like phishing and business email compromise (BEC). Adversaries are likely responding to Microsoft\u2019s disabling of macros in 2022 by using different file types to hide their malware, such as PDFs, which was the top blocked file extension this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia &#8211; 19 February 2024:&nbsp;Cisco Talos&nbsp;Intelligence Group,&nbsp;one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world,&nbsp;released its annual report, titled \u2018Cisco Talos: Year in Review 2023\u2019. The report highlights the most common attacks, targets, and other significant trends&nbsp;across the threat landscape in 2023.&nbsp; The findings show that suspicious network traffic captured by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_pr_autopilot_social_copy":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter_image_id":0,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":22,"_extra_hide_author_box":"","_extra_featured_post":"","_partner_post_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecom","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>cyber threats 2023 - Network Infrastructure Focus | Saudi Shopper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cyber threats 2023 targeted network infrastructure, with healthcare leading attacks. 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