![]() ![]() This research seeks to highlight the threats facing SMBs today from apex level APT actors and provide the SMB community use cases of such targeting over the past year. By examining this data our researchers identified several APT actors specifically targeting SMBs including threat actors aligned with the Russian, Iranian, and North Korean state interests. By leveraging the Proofpoint Essentials telemetry, which encompasses over 200,000+ small and medium business organizations, researchers were able to identify key trends in the APT landscape that pose unique threats to SMBs globally. ![]() Proofpoint researchers conducted a retroactive analysis of small and medium businesses (SMBs) targeted by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors from Q1 2022 through Q1 2023. Regional MSPs are small to midsize MSPs that service customers in a concentrated geographic area. ![]() Proofpoint researchers have identified three main trends of attacks targeting SMBs between 20, including the use of compromised SMB infrastructure in phishing campaigns regional SMB targeting by state-aligned actors for financial theft and vulnerable regional managed services providers (regional MSPs) being targeted via phishing and thereby introducing the threat of SMB supply chain attacks.Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly being targeted by Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors globally. ![]()
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