Since February 2024, the World Watch Cyber Threat Intelligence team has been working on an extensive study of the private and public relationships within the Chinese cyber offensive ecosystem. This includes:

• An online map showcasing the links between 300+ entities;
• Historical context on the Chinese state entities dedicated to cyber offensive operations;
• An analysis of the role of universities and private companies in terms of capacity building;
• A focus on the ecosystem facilitating the acquisition of vulnerabilities for government use in cyber espionage campaigns.

Understanding the complex threat landscape facing businesses today from state-sponsored cyber attacks is crucial to effective cyber defense.

• The shift previously observed in the geographical location of cyber extortion (Cy-X) victims continues to accelerate, moving from the United States (-21%), and Canada (-28%) to Southeast Asia region (+42%), the Nordics (+40%) & Latin America (+32%).
• Whilst Manufacturing continues to be the biggest industry impacted, the number of victims decreased (-39%), with a shift towards the Utilities sector (+51%), Educational Services (+41%) and Finance and Insurance Sectors (+11%).
• Businesses in 96 different countries were impacted by Cy-X in 2022, equating to nearly half (49%) the countries in the world. Since 2020 Orange Cyberdefense has recorded victims in over 70% of all countries worldwide
• Over 2,100 organizations in the world were publicly shamed as a victim of Cy-X in 2022, across an almost even distribution of business sizes.

Tallinn, Estonia – From 18 to 21 April, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) is hosting Locked Shields 2023, the world’s largest live-fire cyber defense exercise. Over 3,000 participants from 38 nations are taking part in the exercise, which involves protecting real computer systems from real-time attacks and simulating tactical and strategic decisions in critical situations.

Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment, and unique in that a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country. Leaders will draw lessons from this conflict for years, but one is already clear: the ability to deliver cyber defense assistance must be a key national security capability.

En l’espace de quelques jours, Hacknowledge a été rachetée par La Poste, alors que SCRT a été acquise par Orange Cyberdefense. Le manque d’experts et la demande croissante des PME motivent ces opérations

Si depuis l’offensive Russe en Ukraine, le « cyber Pearl Harbor » tant redouté n'a pas fait la Une de l’actualité, les assauts contre les infrastructures numériques de l’Ukraine et incidemment dans le reste de l’Europe ont bien été constatés.