Monthly Threat Report – September 2023
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More InformationThe Monthly Threat Report by Hornetsecurity brings you monthly insights into M365 security trends, email-based threats, and commentary on current events in the cybersecurity space. In today’s episode with Yvonne Bernard – CTO at Hornetsecurity, we are analyzing data from the month of August 2023.
During the episode, Andy and Yvonne explore the overall threat trends including:
The most common malicious file types used to deliver payloads, with HTML files taking the lead
The decline of malicious PDF and archive files, likely due to the disruption of Qakbot.
The industries that were most targeted over the past month as well as some brands that cybercriminals are impersonating in phishing attacks.
The impact of the FBI’s disruption of Qakbot.
The Storm-0558 breach.
A French government agency and a software vendor in the gaming space both had breaches that accounted for the PII of roughly 14 million individuals being stolen by threat actors.
Timestamps:
(3:22) – General threat trends for this month’s data period
(7:11) – What were the most used file types used for malicious payloads during the data period?
(10:10) – What are the most targeted industries for this data period?
(12:04) – The most impersonated brands from this month’s report
(16:52) – Commentary on the FBI’s disruption of the Qakbot Botnet
(22:54) – An update on the Microsoft Storm-0558 breach
(33:46) – Data breaches account for 14 million lost records
Episode Resources:
Full Monthly Threat Report – September 2023
EP07: A Discussion and Analysis of Qakbot
