Cybersecurity Threats Affecting Businesses In June 2024

The overall level of cyber threat continues to be elevated globally and the impact is being felt across organizations of all sizes and industry sectors. Cyber-attacks persist across all industrial sectors with continued global focus on healthcare and industrial control systems (ICS). This follows the current trend where attackers are looking for 'soft' targets in industries with a history of underinvestment in cybersecurity. The impact of each attack is increasing as malicious actors focus on higher value targets.

The current unrest in the Middle East is creating a surge in attacks centered on or originating from that region. A recent malware campaign targeting Discord users through emoji's used on the platform. Disgomojj is a Discord-c2 program written in Golang that creates persistent access on the target system. Once present the malware is controlled through emojis in Discord. This then supports a variety of activities from screenshots to data exfiltration.