2023 Annual Report

New Insikt research examines 2023, a year of unexpected outcomes and escalating cybersecurity threats. Throughout the year, cyber threat actors exploited the prevailing chaos to steal data, conduct espionage, and disrupt geopolitics, an example being nation-states like China targeting Taiwanese semiconductor firms. Additionally, the text highlights the rise in exploitation of "as-a-service" enterprise software and shared cloud infrastructure, which led to an increase in weaponized vulnerabilities and high-profile cyberattacks, such as the MOVEit exploit by the ransomware gang CL0P. This …

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