In 2023, companies expected a significant increase in business email compromise attacks, followed by ransomware and attacks against cloud management interfaces. At the same time, 11 percent of respondents stated that nation state-sponsored attacks on critical infrastructure would increase as well.
Global companies' threat outlook for 2023, by reportable incidents
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Business email compromise/ Account takeovers
33%
Ransomware
32%
Attacks against cloud management interfaces
31%
Hack-and-leak operations
30%
Third-party breach
29%
Exploits of cloud component services
28%
Software supply chain compromise
26%
Theft of intellectual property for the purpose of commercialisation
26%
Attacks on industrial internet of things (IIoT) or OT
26%
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
25%
Exploitation of misconfiguration
23%
Exploits of zero-day vulnerabilities
23%
Disinformation
22%
Unauthorized cryptomining
20%
Hardware supply chain implants
19%
Nation-state traditional espionage (cyber and/or physical attacks)
17%
Nation state-sponsored attack on critical infrastructure
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