ZeroFox Intelligence - Q1 2023 Manufacturing Quarterly Threat Landscape Report

ZeroFox Intelligence - Q1 2023 Manufacturing Quarterly Threat Landscape Report

Product Serial: A-2023-05-04b

TLP:CLEAR

ZeroFox Intelligence is excited to announce the release of our Manufacturing Quarterly Threat Landscape Scorecard for Q1 of 2023.

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Scope Note

ZeroFox Intelligence is derived from a variety of sources, including—but not limited to—curated open-source accesses, vetted social media, proprietary data sources, and direct access to threat actors and groups through covert communication channels. Information relied upon to complete any report cannot always be independently verified. As such, ZeroFox applies rigorous analytic standards and tradecraft in accordance with best practices and includes caveat language and source citations to clearly identify the veracity of our Intelligence reporting and substantiate our assessments and recommendations. All sources used in this particular Intelligence product were identified prior to 12:00 PM (EDT) on April 10, 2023; per cyber hygiene best practices, caution is advised when clicking on any third-party links.

Key Findings

• The threat to manufacturing organizations of threat actors exploiting Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) likely increased in Q1 2023. Clop’s successful exploitation of CVE-2023-0669, a zero-day exploit in GoAnywhere MFT file transfer software, resulted in the most incidents in a single month by any extortion collective in ZeroFox Intelligence records. Manufacturing organizations accounted for approximately 12 percent of victims.
• The threat to the manufacturing sector of ransomware and digital extortion likely remained broadly consistent in Q1 2023, following a resurgence in threat actor activity in Q4 2022.
• ZeroFox Intelligence notes early indications of an increase in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) poisoning and the leveraging of malicious Google advertisements as a means of disseminating malware.
• The overall threat to sector entities from botnets remained broadly consistent in Q1 2023.
• Malware-as-a-service offerings sustained low barriers to entry for threat actors seeking to target manufacturing sector entities.