New Zealand Threat Report – Threat Report shows rise in malicious attacks on New Zealand

guest · Nov 16, 2021

Number of cyber-attacks infiltrating critical New Zealand networks soars
National cybersecurity agency also observes rise in automated probing for web security flaws
November 16, 2021
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/...iltrating-critical-new-zealand-networks-soars

New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has observed a 15% year-on-year jump in cyber-attacks against the country’s “nationally significant” organizations.

More than 400 such incidents were recorded between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, up from 352 a year earlier, according to the NCSC’s latest annual threat report, published today (November 16).
More alarmingly still, the proportion of these incidents that reached the post-compromise stage – where threat actors manage to access and move laterally through networks or otherwise cause the victim harm – more than doubled, from 15% to 33%.
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The most widely deployed attack technique was the identification via automated scanning and exploitation of security vulnerabilities in public-facing applications.
Rise of ransomware
There was a near doubling in the proportion of attacks attributed to criminally or financially motivated – as opposed to state-sponsored – threat actors, observed the NCSC.

“This is a trend that has been reflected in public reporting of high-profile cases of disruptive ransomware and denial-of-service attacks affecting New Zealand private and public sector organizations,” said NCSC director Lisa Fong.
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National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC): Cyber Threat Report for 2020/21 released

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