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Companies Must Strengthen Cyber Defense

in Face of Shifting Threat Actor Strategies

Critical for organizations to understand attackers' tactics, techniques, and procedures.

By Bobby Cornwell, Vice President, Strategic Partnership Enablement & Integration, SonicWall

The 2023 mid-year cyber threat report card portends an ominous outlook with staggering data including
the fact that 332 million cryptojacking attacks were recorded in the first half of 2023, and nearly 6 million
encrypted threat attacks and more than 77 million IoT malware attacks transpired globally. This includes
172,146 never-before-seen malware variants.

Concerned? You should be.

As cyberattacks continue to expand in scale and sophistication, the digital assault on governments,
enterprises and global citizens is seemingly endless and evolving at a rapid pace. Threat actors are
increasingly seeking out opportunistic targets, such as schools, state and local governments, and retail
organizations, and have continued shifting away from enterprise targets in the U.S. to regions such as
Latin America and Asia — especially as organizations that are more prepared refuse to pay ransoms.

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