In year 2023, FortiGuard Labs blocked 2.4 trillion vulnerability attempts and 3 billion malware deliveries to protect its customers from cyber threats. FortiGuard Labs escalated the significant threats through the Outbreak Alert system to raise awareness. These outbreaks highlighted the various targeted and 0-day attacks, weaponized vulnerabilities, malware/ ransomware campaigns, and OT/IoT threats launched last year.

In this report, we explore the big names in ransomware, the most frequently targeted sectors, trends in data exfiltration, and which malware and tools are leveraged by ransomware operators. This data creates insights into how organizations can better protect their environments from cyberattacks. The 2023 threat landscape was characterized by a combination of mainstay threat actors and new or reemerging groups. While top variants continue evolving to maintain dominance, the widespread impact of newer groups demonstrates the constant evolution of today’s threats and the need for adaptable defenses and increased cyber resilience.

In our 11th annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, we looked more broadly than ever before at trends and data on a global scale as data breaches have no borders. This, along with the fact that nationstate-sponsored gangs and attacks are becoming increasingly more strategic and purposeful due to political conflicts or interests, made it fitting to expand our lens. Our predictions come from Experian’s long history of helping companies navigate breaches over the past 21 years. Here’s where we expect to see some hard to believe, but possible developments in the world of data security incidents in 2024.

The world of cybercrime never stands still. In the new Cyber Threat Report – Edition 2021/22 – the IT experts from Hornet security once again take a close look at the gateway of email communication and analyze the latest cybercriminal scams. In doing so, they examine what threats have emerged in 2021, what has become of Emotet, and what companies need to be prepared for when opening their inboxes in the future.

The 2024 Global Cybersecurity Outlook (GCO) finds that organizations that maintain minimum viable cyber resilience – that is, a healthy middle grouping of organizations – are disappearing. Organizations reporting such a minimum viable cyber resilience are down 31% since 2022.

The level of uncertainty in today’s global marketplace and the velocity of change continue to produce a multitude of potential risks that can disrupt an organization’s business model and strategy on very short notice. This report contains results from our 11th annual worldwide risk survey of directors and executives to obtain their views on the extent to which a broad collection of risks is likely to affect their organizations over the next year - 2023. We analyze variances across different sizes and types of organizations, industry and respondent position, in addition to variations among organizations based in different geographic regions.

The Security Navigator reflects first and foremost the reality of the conflictual nature of cyber warfare. It mirrors the disinhibition of threat actors motivated by state strategies or hacktivism as well as criminal opportunities. In this environment, espionage, sabotage, disinformation and extortion are becoming increasingly intertwined. This document is also intended to become the cornerstone of the partnership of trust that we wish to build with you. It must enrich our debates within a community that is still too isolated.

The report explores a notable shift towards instability within the threat landscape and an increase in unnamed ransomware variants, potentially due to affiliates shifting between names to find the highest profits while reducing exposure to law enforcement. It also explores trends in ransom demands and payments across various industries. Finally, we discuss what may be coming in Q4 as the ransomware ecosystem continues to shift.

CDW Canada’s 2023 Canadian Hybrid Cloud Report, our latest annual survey with IDC, to learn how organizations are transforming into a digital business, adopting cloud platforms, deploying hybrid and multicloud solutions. You’ll also find out what are the top business objectives shaping digital infrastructure strategies in Canada.

This year’s research explored three key outcomes and the capabilities that contribute to achieving those outcomes: Organizational performance, team performance and employee well-being. The research also explored means or performance measures that we often talk about like ends-in-themselves: software delivery performance and operational performance.

The 2023 Board Perspective report shines a light on how boards are managing this evolving landscape. Our annual survey reveals the beliefs, experiences and insights of 650 board members across the globe. We analyzed their responses to get a boardroom perspective of the threat landscape, the role of the CISO and the broader world of cybersecurity. We also compared the results with CISOs surveyed in our 2023 Voice of the CISO report. Pairing the surveys helps provide a more complete picture of where CISOs and their boards are on the same page—and opportunities for better alignment.

Today, a new reality is taking shape, based on Deloitte’s 2023 Global Future of Cyber Survey, which asked hundreds of leaders across industries and across the globe to share their views on cyber threats, enterprise activities, and the future. The survey included C-suite executives across the enterprise, as well as other senior leaders with responsibility for IT, security, and risk. This new reality is grounded by the following findings.

In the first half of 2023, Arete observed several distinct trends and shifts in the cyber threat landscape. Leveraging the data collected during each incident response engagement, we can see the rise and fall of ransomware variants, notable trends in ransom demands and payments, industries targeted by ransomware attacks, and what may be coming next. The threat landscape continues to evolve with the widespread introduction of AI tools, lower barriers of entry into cybercrime, new vulnerabilities, and the socioeconomic effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Organizations are facing a growing number of security alerts, a quickly evolving threat landscape, and ongoing staffing shortages. To better understand these challenges and how organizations are prepared to address them, Swimlane recently partnered with Dimensional Research, a leading independent research firm, to survey security professionals and executives from around the world. The survey investigated the perceptions of cybersecurity among front-line professionals, current trends in attracting and retaining top talent, and the effectiveness of tools leveraged to address security challenges.

This is the tenth edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report, an annual report on the status of the cybersecurity threat landscape. It identifies the top threats, major trends observed with respect to threats, threat actors and attack techniques, as well as impact and motivation analysis. It also describes relevant mitigation measures.

Our latest cybersecurity research reveals some organizations are using cybersecurity as a differentiator to deliver better business outcomes. Those organizations that closely align their cybersecurity programs to business objectives are 18% more likely to increase their ability to drive revenue growth, increase market share and improve customer satisfaction, trust and employee productivity.

In this, our seventh annual survey, we added many questions but didn’t really take any away. Our new areas of focus include operational threat hunting, threat intelligence, data ingestion into the SIEM, and SOAR, as well as more detailed questions relevant to staff hiring and retention.

The annual HUMAN Enterprise Bot Fraud Benchmark Report provides insights into automated attack trends across enterprise use cases, including account takeover, brute forcing, carding, credential stuffing, inventory hoarding, scalping, and web scraping.

In this threat intelligence spotlight report, eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) provides a threat analysis of the most common cyber threat detected across our global legal customer base.

This white paper breaks down existing methods of preventative cyber security and deep dives into Darktrace PREVENT: a product family that combines many of the best aspects of existing methods in an end-to-end, AI-powered solution.

This report will focus on dark markets and cross-chain bridges. We continue looking at the trends, current events, hacks, thefts, exploits, and global regulatory developments. Our goal, as always, is to keep you informed and to highlight emerging and ongoing trends to give you the best possible information to keep your business running smoothly.