The PolySwarm Blog

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Cyber threats pose a significant risk to the energy vertical, which encompasses various sectors such as oil, gas, electricity, renewable energy, utilities, and related critical infrastructure entities. PolySwarm has been tracking cyber activity targeting the energy vertical in 2023. In this report, we provide highlights of this year’s threat actors and cyber attacks known to target the energy sector.

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In January, our analysts made various predictions for the 2023 threat landscape. In this report, we present malware trends and observations that correlate with those predictions. 

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In this report, PolySwarm analysts chose our top five standout malware families for the 2023 Malware Hall of Fame. We also feature the Story of the Year, MOVEit. A small selection of our most recent samples of each family are provided as well.

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Several high-profile North Korea nexus threat actor groups have been active in 2023. Reported activities include but are not limited to supply chain attacks, targeting of cryptocurrency, and proliferation of MacOS malware. In this report, PolySwarm highlights cyber activity perpetrated by North Korea nexus threat actor groups in 2023.