Fortinet Threat Research finds cybercriminals exploiting new industry vulnerabilities 43% faster than 1H 2023

Alan Reyes, Country Manager, Fortinet Philippines Rashish Pandey, VP for Marketing and Communications, Asia and ANZ, Fortinet Nap Castillo, Manager, Systems Engineering, Fortinet Philippines

The latest semi-annual report is a snapshot of the active threat landscape and highlights trends from July to December of 2023, including analysis on the speed with which cyber attackers are capitalizing on newly identified exploits from across the cybersecurity industry and the rise of targeted ransomware and wiper activity against the industrial and OT sector.

While bot traffic remained steady relative to the first half of 2023, FortiGuard Labs continued to see the more prominent botnets of the last few years, such as Gh0st, Mirai, and ZeroAccess, but three new botnets emerged in the second half of 2023, including: AndroxGh0st, Prometei, and DarkGate.

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