2023 Cyber Threat Predictions

This ReliaQuest analysis reviews major 2022 cyber threat trends and forecasts for 2023, highlighting LockBit’s dominance among ransomware groups, the rise of data-leak extortion sites and single-extortion data theft, potential shifts toward destructive malware, the blurring of motivations between nation-state actors, cybercriminals and hacktivists, a resurgence of coordinated hacktivism tied to the Russia–Ukraine conflict, and anticipated election-focused disinformation campaigns.