March 2023 broke ransomware attack records with 459 incidents

March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks, an increase of 91% from the previous month and 62% compared to March 2022. According to NCC Group, which compiled a report based on statistics derived from its observations, the reason last month broke all ransomware attack records was CVE-2023-0669. This is a vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool that the Clop ransomware gang exploited as a zero-day to steal data from 130 companies within ten days. March 2023 activity continues the upward trend observed by NCC Group since the start of the year (January and February), with the highest number of hack and data leak incidents recorded in the past three years.

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