BlackBerry’s Inaugural Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report Reveals Threat Actors Launch One Malicious Threat Every Minute
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WATERLOO, ON, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today released its Global Threat Intelligence Report, highlighting the volume and model of threats across a range of organizations and regions, including industry-specific attacks targeting the automotive and manufacturing, healthcare and financial sectors. After the success and continued demand for its annual threat report, BlackBerry has switched to a quarterly cadence to match the speed adversaries evolve to provide a more holistic view of the threat landscape, helping businesses to prepare and protect themselves accordingly.

BlackBerry’s AI-driven prevention-first technology stopped 1,757,248 malware-based cyberattacks. This includes 62 unique samples per hour, or one sample each minute. The most common cyber-weapons used in attacks include the resurgence of the Emotet botnet after a four-month dormancy period, the extensive presence of the Qakbot phishing threat, which hijacks existing email threads to convince victims of their legitimacy, and the increase in infostealer downloaders like GuLoader.

Highlights from the report include:

MacOS is not immune. RedLine was the most active and widespread infostealer in this last quarter. BlackBerry is uniquely positioned to uncover threats that affect industries that aren’t often discussed in other threat reports.
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