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March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks, an increase of 91% from the previous month and 62% compared to March 2022.
According to NCC Group, which compiled a report based on statistics derived from its observations, the reason last month broke all ransomware attack records was CVE-2023-0669.
March 2023 activity continues the upward trend observed by NCC Group since the start of the year, with the highest number of hack and data leak incidents recorded in the past three years.
Other ransomware groups that had relatively significant activity during March 2023 are Royal ransomware, BlackCat, Bianlian, Play, Blackbasta, Stormous, Medusa, and Ransomhouse.
The most targeted sector in March 2023 was "Industrials," receiving 147 ransomware attacks, accounting for 32% of the recorded attacks.
Regarding the location of last month's victims, almost half of all attacks breached entities in North America, Europe followed with 126 episodes, and Asia came third with 59 ransomware attacks.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-06 | CVE-2023-0669 | Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Fortra Goanywhere Managed File Transfer Fortra (formerly, HelpSystems) GoAnywhere MFT suffers from a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in the License Response Servlet due to deserializing an arbitrary attacker-controlled object. | 7.2 |