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title: 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Threat Landscape Report
description: This report represents Deep Instinct’s current view of the threat landscape and trends seen between January — August 2023. It details the most important cyber threats of the year along with overall trends to be aware of as 2024 draws nearer.
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# Report 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Threat Report

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As 2024 draws nearer, we look at the most important cyberthreats of the year along with trends to pay attention to. This report provides a timely perspective on today’s threat landscape and how it is likely to evolve.

#### **Key takeaways:**

- State-sponsored attacks continued to rise in 2023, breaking all records
- LNK, Artificial inflation, and JS take over where Macro’s left off
- Info leaking, leak sites evolution, underground forums closed by the FBI
- Vulnerabilities are still the most important component of large-scale cyberattacks
- LLMs are the New Era Malware Builders

#### 2023 Predictions:

The biggest development is that we predict that LLMs will soon be able to perform standalone vulnerability research and exploit implementation and execute attacks. Check out the others!

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