Cyber-attacks against government agencies and public sector services are up 40% in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the first.
BlackBerry Cybersecurity’s second Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report, covering cyber-attacks observed from March to May 2023, was published on August 2, 2023. The firm claimed it stopped 1.5 million attacks across 90 days, 55000 of which were targeting public sector organizations.
This reporting period was dominated by news of ransomware groups targeting and breaching city and state government systems in North America. These included the LockBit incident against the city of Oakland in California, BlackByte’s Royal Ransomware campaign that affected Dallas, Texas and Augusta, Georgia and Clop’s MOVEit supply chain attack.
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