Security News > 2023 > January > Recent 2022 cyberattacks presage a rocky 2023

This week rang in 2023 with a chorus of news on ransomware, DDoS, mass exfiltration, phishing attacks, revelations of attacks past, and threats of attacks to come.

The exfiltration of a reputed 230 million Twitter users' private-date records was due to a zero-day application programming interface flaw by an attacker who may or may not be known as Ryushi.

SEE: Machine-Learning Python package compromised in supply chain attack.

EmiSoft's yearly State of Ransomware in the US report detailed that last year, 106 local governments, 44 colleges and universities, 45 school districts and 25 healthcare providers were attacked for ransom.

The report also noted that the number of ransomware attacks on U.S. state and local governments has remained fairly flat since 2019, when the firm recorded 113 attacks, and 2022, when it recorded 106 attacks.

The same is true for education, with the number of yearly attacks between 2019 and 2022 remaining in the high 80s. Another observation by EmiSoft: Attacks have veered from major cities like Baltimore and Atlanta to smaller governments.

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