Anew report has found that cyberattacks targeting government agencies and the public sector increased at an alarming rate in recent months, as threat actors unleashed a slate of novel malware campaigns that impacted financial institutions, healthcare services and critical infrastructure industries.
The quarterly Global Threat Intelligence report published by Blackberry shows a 40% increase in attacks targeting government agencies and the public sector between March and May, as well as a 13% increase in novel malware samples that the company observed from the previous reporting period’s average.
