As 2022 comes to an end, cybersecurity teams globally are taking the opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months and draw whatever conclusions and insights they can about the threat landscape.
It has been a challenging year for security teams. A major conflict in Europe, a persistently remote workforce and a series of large-scale cyberattacks have all but guaranteed that 2022 was far from uneventful.
In this article, we’ll round up some of the most common cyberattack patterns we saw in 2022, what they meant for organizations (and society in general) and present some concrete strategies to deal with these threats in the future.
1. Ransomware
It’s been a somewhat strange year for ransomware. The first half of the year saw a surge of ransomware attacks, but then subsided in Q3 and continued to slow down. Still, the percentage of breaches caused by ransomware grew 41% in the last year; identification and remediation for a breach took 49 days longer than the average breach.
Ransomware attacks typically follow roughly the same pattern. An attacker gains control of one or many of an organization’s assets, such as critical data, encodes them and demands a ransom for their release.
2022 saw some significant ransomware events. One example was the Toyota hack in February and March, where multiple Toyota suppliers were hacked, leading to an estimated 5% dip in Toyota’s monthly production capability.
Another series of noteworthy attacks targeted the government of Costa Rica in April and May, ..
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