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This was emulated by the notorious ALPHV/ BlackCat ransomware gang, who were also prevalent this year.
ESET cites figures fromEmsisoftwho estimates the number of affected organizations after six months to be over 2,600.
Victims ranged from government agencies, schools and healthcare, to major firms likeSonyand PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Such domains include web apps that use theOpenAIAPI keys in an insecure way, threatening user’s data privacy.
Also taking this year by storm was the Lumma stealer, which was very successful in stealing crypto wallets.
It injects code into unsecure websites to steal information from users, such as their credit card details.
The number of detections between 2021 and 2023 rose by 343%.
