Report: Governments Most Highly Targeted for Cyberattacks in 2023

Governments were the most highly targeted group for cyberattacks in the first half of 2023, said a global report from Radware Thursday. The company gathered information from the messaging app Telegram, which is frequented by cyberattackers. The report recorded 1,112 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against government entities. Business entities had 1,036 attacks, and travel websites 628. India had the most targeted DDoS attacks with 674, followed by 507 in the U.S., 459 in Israel, 376 in Ukraine and 297 in Poland. The telecom sector had 15% of attacks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2023, the report said.