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Group-IB has published the report every year since 2012, analyzing the various aspects of the cybercriminal industry’s operations. It examines attacks from the past year and provides forecasts for the threat landscape worldwide.
The Group-IB team has used a region-specific structure for this year’s edition in an effort to share valuable information in a way that is easy to read and understand. We hope our efforts will pay off and that you will get inspired to make the best use of relevant data, establish good practices, build effective cybersecurity roadmaps, and put our insights to the test.
In 2023, the number of offers to sell initial access to compromised networks increased by 18% in the North American region.The quality of initial access offers also rose – marked by a 73% increase in instances of access sold with local admin rights compared to 2022.The public database leak is also a huge problem in the region with 188 new cases in 2023.Our analysis revealed a 109% increase in ransomware attacks in North America in 2023 with a shift in focus to the healthcare sector.We see the full picture of the evolving cyber threat landscape thanks to unique tools for monitoring the infrastructure used by cybercriminals and data from battlefields:
