The report also examined threats mostly impacting home users. "Russia was also the country that was most targeted by ransomware, with some of the attacks being politically or ideologically motivated by the war," said Roman Kovac, Chief Research Officer at ESET. "These statistics confirm the assumption that the 'Mozi' botnet is on autopilot, running without human supervision since its reputed author was arrested in 2021," said the report.Įven with declining numbers, Russian IP addresses continued to be responsible for the largest portion of remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks.
However, China and India continued to have the highest number of IoT bots geolocated inside the respective countries. The IoT botnet 'Mozi' saw the number of bots drop by 23 per cdnt from 500,000 compromised devices to 383,000 in May-August.
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