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increase of 20% from Q4. Thirty-two percent
of all publicly disclosed security incidents
took place in the Americas, followed by 13%
in Europe and 13% in Asia-Pacific.
Regional targets. Disclosed incidents
targeting the Asia-Pacific region increased
126%, Americas declined nearly 3% and
Europe decreased nearly 2%.
Vertical industry activity. Disclosed
incidents impacting individuals spiked 78%,
education sector increased 50%, healthcare
increased 18%, public sector decreased
10%, and financial sector increased 89%.
Targeted attacks. McAfee identified a
high number of campaigns that effectively
minimised the data reconnaissance required
to successfully execute attacks. Actors
primarily focused on large organisations
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in the government/administration sector,
followed by finance, chemical, defence and
education sectors. Initial access was gained
by spearphishing in 68% of attacks and
77% relied upon specific user actions for
attack execution.
Underground. More than 2.2 billion stolen
account credentials were made available
on the cybercriminal underground over the
course of the quarter.
The largest dark market, Dream Market,
announced its plan to close, citing a large
number of Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) attacks.
Law enforcement successfully seized and
closed operations of xDedic, one of the
largest RDP shops reportedly selling access to
approximately 70,000 hacked machines. n
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