The MOVEit breach and ransomware weren’t kind to the Feds last year
The number of cybersecurity incidents reported by US federal agencies rose 9.9 percent year-on-year in 2023 to a total of 32,211, per a new White House report, which also spilled the details on the most serious incidents suffered across the government.
Brute force attacks on networks and services were the only other vector to register more than 1,000 cases – but took the price for the biggest YoY percentage increase in incidents, up from just 197 the year before., which acts like the CVSS for individual vulnerabilities and grades incidents according to how impactful they're likely to be on aspects of society such as national and economic security, delivering public services, and foreign relations.
Any incident that is likely to result in demonstrable harm to the national security interests, foreign relations, or the economy of the United States, or to the public confidence, civil liberties, or public health and safety of the American people The HHS's other major incident was again the fault of contractors, two of them which were targeted by attackers using a zero-day to gain access to systems hosting personal data. It's believed that 1.88 million people's data may have been compromised, including all the usual data types as well as, in some cases, social security numbers and medical diagnoses.
Their account was taken over for roughly 15 hours and could have accessed all manner of files, but they were booted out before any lateral movement or malware could be introduced to the equation.
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