New reports claim that cyberattacks against businesses are drastically increasing. Researchers warn that over 80% of organizations already experienced more than one data breach in 2022.
Meanwhile, other data claim that ransomware attacks spiked by more than 10%. This is alarming since these details show that more and more companies are falling victim to cybercriminals.
New Reports Claim Businesses Now More Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
According to Harvard Business Review, a new IBM Data Breach Report warned that organizations experienced more than one cyberattack in 2022; 83% fell victim to ransomware gangs.
Aside from this research, the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report also revealed that the overall cyberattack breaches in 2022 increased by up to 13%.
Involved cybersecurity experts said that this percentage is equal to all the company breaches that happened over the last five years combined.
Latest Cyberattacks Against Companies
Among the latest cybersecurity breaches that happened are the following two:
OpenAI ChatGPT: payment-related details and other sensitive information were leaked because of an exploited bug in an open-source library.
Samsung: Reports claim that three Samsung employees leaked the company's sensitive database after using ChatGPT.
Aside from the Samsung and OpenAI cybersecurity attacks, organizations in other parts of the world also fell victim to ransomware groups.
These include the massive cyberattack against PSA (Philippine Statistics Authority) and PhilHealth (Philippine Health Insurance Corp.).
On Oct. 11, Rappler reported that PSA announced a major breach after some online posts showed blurred PSA ID photos and other personal details.
PSA informed the National Privacy Commission regarding the breach. As part of its safety efforts, the statistics organization said that it isolated and closed the system that has been affected.
The organization claims that the breach didn't affect other critical systems, such as those that process civil registry and National IDs.
In the case of PhilHealth, the corporation said that a Medusa ransomware attack successfully breached its system. Since this is ransomware, it is more serious compared to what PSA experienced.
After the ransomware was confirmed, PhilHealth urged its clients to use the PhilHealth Member Portal when accessing their memberships and contribution records.
PhilHealth Chief Emmanuel R. Ledesma, Jr. provided some tips to their members to avoid getting their data leaked.
"It is best to ignore suspicious calls and to delete text or emails from unknown and suspicious senders to avoid being victimized by scammers," he said.
