Ransomware leak site reports rose by 49% in 2023, but there is good news
Unit 42 observed 3,998 postings from ransomware leak sites, an increase from 2,679 (for 2022). This was a 49% increase and was likely due to zero-day vulnerabilities, such as "such as CVE-2023-0669 for GoAnywhere MFT or CVE-2023-34362, CVE-2023-35036 and CVE-2023-35708 for MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection."The report also states that not all ransomeware attackers are able to leverage zero-day vulnerabilities because some of the groups were discovered to be run by inexperienced actors. One example of this was an unknown!-->>…