The BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report has become a key reference guide for cybersecurity professionals worldwide, including CISOs and other decision makers, to keep the security community informed of the latest cybersecurity threats and challenges globally affecting their industries and platforms. This report covers threats encountered in June 2023 through August 2023. It examines the challenges faced by many industry sectors, with a focus on protecting government and public entities, risks within the healthcare sectors, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and the importance of protecting vulnerable entities within the financial sector.

The mission of this report is to provide actionable intelligence on targeted attacks, cybercrime-motivated threat actors, and campaigns targeting organizations like yours so that you can make well-informed decisions and take prompt effective actions.

The cyber events of the past year included unprecedented supply chain attacks, assaults on critical infrastructure, and widespread vulnerabilities likely to haunt organizations for years. These events, among many others, are detailed in Blackberry 2022 Threat Report. However, reading the entire report can prove challenging for security professionals with little time to spare.

The Blackberry 2022 Threat Report is not a simple retrospective of the cyberattacks of 2021. It is a high-level look at issues affecting cybersecurity across the globe, both directly and indirectly. It covers elements of critical infrastructure exploitation, adversarial artificial intelligence (Al), initial access brokers (IABs), critical event management (CEM), extended detection and response (XDR), and other issues shaping our current security environment.

The BlackBerry® Cylance® 2020 Threat Report contains a broad range of topics vital to the interests of businesses, governments, and end-users. It delivers the combined security insights of BlackBerry, a trailblazer in the Internet of things (IoT) and mobile security, and Cylance, an early pioneer of AI-driven cybersecurity and endpoint security market disruptor, which was purchased by BlackBerry in February 2019.

The recent Chinese New Year ushered in the Year of the Rat, but from the perspective of the many corporations, government agencies and other organizations around the world who continue to be the targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups acting in the interest of the Chinese government, recent years could aptly be described as the Decade of the RATs - Remote Access Trojans, that is.

In this report, BlackBerry researchers reveal what the focus on those groups has overshadowed: several governments with well-established cyber capabilities have long ago adapted to and exploited the mobile threat landscape for a decade or more. In this context, mobile malware is not a new or niche effort, but a longstanding part of a cross-platform strategy integrated with traditional desktop malware in diverse ways across the geopolitical sphere.