Know Thy Enemy: unraveling the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2022/2023” report

**Hi‑Tech Crime Trends Report 2022/2023** — Group‑IB outlines the evolving threat landscape in H2 2021–H1 2022, highlighting increased state‑sponsored and hacktivist activity (including multiple wipers), the industrialization of ransomware (larger ransom demands, double‑extortion, growth of Dedicated Leak Sites and RaaS affiliates), proliferation of initial‑access brokers and stealer logs on underground markets, and adversaries shifting to less well‑known, harder‑to‑detect post‑exploitation frameworks; the report urges organizations to adopt security‑driven defenses against these high‑impact trends.