The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report is the industry’s preeminent source on adversary intelligence, examining the emerging adversary trends of the past year. The purpose of this report is to arm you, the world’s security professionals and dedicated cyber defenders, with the knowledge you need to keep a step ahead of these threat actors — and to never, ever underestimate them.

In this report, CrowdStrike OverWatch threat hunters distilled their findings into hundreds of new behavior-based preventions over the past 12 months. As a result, the team’s front-line findings directly augment the Falcon platform’s ability to detect and prevent the latest threats. This data specifically focuses on interactive intrusions — attacks where adversaries establish an active presence within a target network, often engaging in hands-on-keyboard activities to achieve their objectives.

The 2024 edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report arrives at a pivotal moment for our global community of protectors. The speed and ferocity of cyberattacks continue to accelerate as adversaries compress the time between initial entry, lateral movement and breach. At the same time, the rise of generative AI has the potential to lower the barrier of entry for low-skilled adversaries, making it easier to launch attacks that are more sophisticated and state of the art. These trends are driving a tectonic shift in the security landscape and the world.

The report shows that security must parallel the slope of technology innovation. As technology matures, security has to mature and match the innovation of the technology running our organizations. The same thing can be said for the adversary. With every innovation we achieve, we can expect the adversary to actively seek ways to exploit it. From the cloud to Kubernetes, from Al to applications and more, as technology gets more complex and provides tremendous operational gains, security must evolve to protect the productivity we gain.

This year’s report starts with a close look at OverWatch’s extensive dataset covering observed interactive threat actor behaviors, which we will refer to in this report as “intrusion activity.” It uses this data to examine how and where adversaries are operating to provide a comprehensive overview of the threat landscape.

This annual report offers important lessons and recommendations for security teams operating in today’s environment, where visibility and speed are more critical than ever.

The CrowdStrike 2022 Global Threat Report provides crucial insights into what security teams need to know about to stay ahead of today’s threats in an increasingly ominous threat landscape.

A survey of 2,200 IT professionals from organizations of 250 or more employees. Focuses on attitudes on and about cybersecurity.

If there’s one thing this year’s Global Threat Report really brings home, it’s that there’s never been a better time to get involved in cybersecurity. The stakes are high, and rising every day. Those that read and share this report are helping to educate themselves and others to better protect themselves and their communities, both at work and at home.

An analysis of threat actors and key action patterns based upon CrowdStrike’s threat hunting human analyst team over the first half of 2019.

This year’s Global Threat Report: “Adversary Tradecraft and the Importance of Speed,” addresses the quickening pace and increasing sophistication in adversary tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) over the past year — and in particular, highlights the critical importance of speed in staying ahead of rapidly evolving threats.

From the report, “This casebook presents some of the findings and recommendations we’ve made in key engagements across a representative sample of the work we performed last year. We dig into: Emerging and notable trends, Examples of ill-prepared organizations and the devastating effects of the breaches they suffered, Essential recommendations to prevent companies from becoming another statistic of poor security planning and execution. This casebook also underscores the expertise of our team and the important work we’re doing at CrowdStrike® Services. As you read the case studies, you will see that CrowdStrike stands shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients as we work together to stop adversaries and repair damage. But this casebook is not just for CrowdStrike clients — we want everyone to become better prepared to overcome their adversaries in 2019.”

The goal of this white paper is to bring clarity to cyber threat intelligence. It explains the different categories of CTI and discusses some use cases to illustrate ways it can be applied and utilized to augment security teams’ efficiency and gain an edge over the attackers. Finally, it discusses CrowdStrike’s approach to threat intelligence.

This report offers insight into Ransomware and explains the growing threat that impacts enterprise security.

The purpose of this white paper is to help users understand how CrowdStrike ® uses ML to protect endpoints. To get there, we must first clarify what ML is and how it works. Then we will describe how Crowdstrike implements ML, specifically in the area of malware detection. Finally, we will discuss the benefits and limitations of applying ML in cybersecurity. In the end, the reader will get a better understanding of ML and how — when used correctly — it can help defend against cyber threats.

Based on extensive use of CrowdStrike’s next generation endpoint protection platform to detect and prevent sophisticated attacks against large organizations, CrowdStrike’s in house team of security experts, adversary hunters, intelligence analysts and incident responders have pooled their knowledge to produce this valuable guidebook and checklist for proactively enhancing your corporate information security procedures while avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.

This brief whitepaper offers some thoughts on why endpoint security should move to the cloud.

This report offers a checklist for surviving a Cyber Attack.

Cybersecurity has emerged as a key risk factor to be weighed during the due diligence process of any merger and acquisition. How should organizations on both sides approach the process? Steve Chabinsky of CrowdStrike shares his thoughts on strategy for assessing cyber risk during the M&A due diligence process.

The big-name breaches have made us all sensitive to the loss of personal and competitive data. But are we overlooking the real risks? Shawn Henry of Crowdstrike offers insight on how we need to evolve our core defenses.

This report discusses a key issue in a Malware-centric defense approach; it will leave you vulnerable to attacks that don’t leverage malware. Read on to learn more.