Experts encourage investment in attribution technologies

Most significant among the arrests was of a 42-year-old Chinese national, who had credentials to prolific hacking operations' access services and $850,000 in cryptocurrency assets in addition to laptops and mobile devices.

Vulnerabilities in WordPress and other web apps have been leveraged by attackers to facilitate the deployment of the open-source web shell ASPXspy that would then allow the compromise of IIS servers with the malware.

Software vendors, consultant organizations, and education/research entities recorded the next highest year-over-year increase in average weekly cyberattacks, while internet service providers/managed service providers, retail/wholesale organizations, and leisure/hospitality firms had the steepest declines.