ReliaQuest, the security operations specialist, has unveiled its Annual Cyber Threat Report. The report is based on data from February 1, 2022 to February 1, 2023 where it remediated 35,000 incidents affecting clients.
Key findings include:
- The construction sector (with an average of 226 incidents annually) is the most targeted by cyber criminals closely followed by transportation (167), wholesale trade (138), manufacturing (116) and retailers (105). These sectors are highly vulnerable to outages which may explain why they are more targeted by criminals, the researchers state.
- The most detected attack technique is the attempted exploitation of exposed remote services, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and remote desktop protocol (RDP) Initial Access Brokers (IAB) provide a route into the above and compromised remote desktop protocol (RDP) is the most commonly advertised on criminal forums with 24.4% of all listings with an average price of $1,000 but can fetch up to $2,700.
- Virtual Private Networks also allow attackers to gain access to organisations and commonly sold for an average of $500. However, these prices can vary by vertical sector with…
