What happened recently?
Researchers from Qi'anxin Red Raindrops reported a cyberattack campaign, carried out by Russia-backed Fancy Bear group, that used fake NATO training course materials to target NATO members and other related government agencies.
A cybercriminal group posing as officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services sent out fake requests for quotes to vendors. The scammers even left a number that showed the Texas DSHS as the first result on the Google search page. The overall deal was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What do the trends indicate?
A group of researchers from Temple University in Philadelphia conducted a year-long project named Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks (CIRWA) and found that government facilities remained the top targets of cybercriminals in the past year. It is evidenced if we look at some of the recent attacks from the month of September:
In mid-September, we learned about a ransomware attack at the Development Bank of Seychelles. However, the technical details about the ransomware or whether attackers exfiltrated any data were not disclosed.
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