Threat actors are augmenting traditional ransomware and extortion with attacks designed to intentionally disrupt operations. Amid these trends, we’re also seeing a multi-pronged approach in attacks, as threat actors target multiple areas of the attack surface. In fact, 70% of the incidents Unit 42 responded to happened on three or more fronts, underscoring the need to protect endpoints, networks, cloud environments and the human factor in tandem. These incidents involved large organizations grappling with extortion, network intrusions, data theft, advanced persistent threats and more.

The GreyNoise 2025 Mass Internet Exploitation Report provides security leaders, SOC analysts, vulnerability managers, and threat intelligence teams with actionable insights. Attackers are industrializing reconnaissance and exploitation. Security teams must adapt. This report provides the intelligence needed to prioritize, respond, and defend against the next wave of mass exploitation.

The threat landscape is dynamic and reactive — a new technique empowers a previously unknown threat group, vendors swarm to mitigate that threat and create new technologies in the process, operators on both sides seek out new techniques or tools, and so it goes. Elastic Security provides mechanisms to detect and mitigate malware on all major desktop operating systems (OS). For these purposes, malware is any software developed to facilitate adversary actions, disrupt legitimate activities, or otherwise cause harm to a computer or network.

In this report, they we anticipate malicious actors will continue their rapid adoption of AI-based tools to augment and assist their online operations across various phases of the attack lifecycle. We expect to see cyber espionage and cyber crime actors continue to leverage deepfakes for identity theft, fraud, and bypassing know-your-customer (KYC) security requirements. As AI capabilities become more widely available throughout 2025, enterprises will increasingly struggle to defend themselves against these more frequent and effective compromises.

In this report, the security domain of the CISO continues to expand. This area is one of the most challenging to protect as the threats that attack these devices, like mobile malware and botnets, are becoming more sophisticated. ThreatLabz found that mobile threats are becoming more targeted and sophisticated—with 29% and 111% growth in mobile banking malware and mobile spyware attacks, respectively—even as the overall volume of mobile attacks has declined.

1Password Business is an encrypted password solution that provides users with secure access via autofill logins, autogenerated strong passwords, and vault features. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the interviewees’ experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization. Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that 1Password can have on an organization.

The report has delivered a holistic annual view of the vulnerabilities within Microsoft’s platforms and products, and has established an undeniable business case for the importance of removing admin rights to reduce risk. In this report, we will examine how these vulnerability trends, along with cloud security adoption, collectively influence how we should think about cybersecurity and risk management in 2022 and beyond.

In its 8th year, the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report has proven to be a valuable asset for many organizations who wish to gain a holistic understanding of the evolving threat landscape. The report provides a 12-month, consolidated view and analysis of Microsoft Patch Tuesdays, as well as exclusive insights from some of the world’s top cybersecurity experts. This analysis not only reveals evolving vulnerability trends, but also identifies the Critical vulnerabilities that could be mitigated if admin rights were removed.

This report is based on real-world monitoring and analysis of attacks between Q1 2020 and Q1 2021 discovered in the wild by the BeyondTrust Labs team. This research report provides insights and analysis into threats and privileged account misuse on Windows devices across the globe. 66% of the techniques either recommend using Privileged Account Management, User Account Management, and Application Control as mitigations or list Administrator / SYSTEM accounts as being a prerequisite for the technique to succeed.

In this report, we’ll delve into insights drawn from an analysis of over 16 billion authentications in the last year (and over 44B in the last 4 years), spanning nearly 52 million different browsers, on 58 million endpoints and 21 million unique phones across regions. Authenticator apps like Duo mobile appeal to both demand for higher security and ease-of-use. Last year, access to remote access applications fell to nearly 25% of authentications after peaking in 2020.

This report focuses on the security of deployed AI models in cloud services and environments. Our research indicates that more than half of organizations have adopted AI models for custom applications. More than half of organizations are deploying their own AI models. Default AI settings are often accepted without regard for security.

OWASP MASVS sets a minimum bar for mobile app developers to follow when building apps securely and provides security teams with the ideal testing strategy as part of the organization’s proof of controls. NowSecure benchmark mobile application security testing analysis shows 95% of nearly 6,500 leading mobile apps fail at least one of the seven OWASP MASVS categories.

This year’s research shows that, while most businesses have a ransomware strategy in place, many are incomplete. They’re either missing a documented plan or the right people to execute it. As a result, we see that many organizations are paying the ransom. Likewise, whilst many have cyber insurance, too many simply don’t know if or to what degree it covers them for ransomware attacks.

Security threats are real, they continue to grow, and they are likely to penetrate an organization through email. Organizations simply cannot settle for ‘Good Enough’ email security and sole reliance on a SEG is not enough. As we all know, it only takes one breach to damage a company’s financial status, brand reputation, and/or relationship with its employees and customers. Each day, our analysts see thousands of threats that are bypassing all SEGs on the market.

To reflect the shift from malware to threats we have evolved our State of Malware report once again. We asked our experts what resource constrained IT teams should pay attention to in the year ahead. They have chosen six threats that illustrate some of the most serious cybercrime tactics we’ve seen on Windows, Mac, and Android. It is not an exhaustive list, but if you are equipped to handle these then you are well placed to deal with anything the cybercrime ecosystem can throw at you.

This year’s report introduces results from the Attack Path Validation (APV) and Detection Rule Validation (DRV) products on the Picus platform, offering deeper observations into organizational preparedness against automated penetration tests and the effectiveness of detection rules in SIEM systems. It provides perspective into the current state of cybersecurity and recommends Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for those working to adopt a holistic approach.

The 2024 edition of the Blue Report provides key findings and practical recommendations for cybersecurity professionals by evaluating the effectiveness of current detection and prevention practices. The Blue Report 2024 serves as a crucial resource for cybersecurity professionals and decision-makers. It provides perspective into the current state of cybersecurity and recommends Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for those working to adopt a holistic approach.

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.

This annual report is the result of the CRU’s research and analysis of nearly half a million alerts reviewed by the ConnectWise team, which is filtered into key takeaways and action items that affect MSPs the most. The information in this report is built to help MSPs protect their SMB customers. Our goal is to help you understand and prepare for the threats you and your customers are likely to face so you can focus your time, energy, and money on defenses that will impact your customers.

The primary goal of OT Security Leaders it to ensure that the risk of a cyber incident impacting the Reliability, Availability and Safety of operations is minimised. This requires identification and management of vulnerabilities, and a layer of controls to prevent threat actors from accessing networks. The logical starting point is to identify and classify all assets though this is rarely a simple task.

This report leverages N2K’s analytical strengths to map WiCyS members’ skills directly to the NICE Workforce Framework, categorizing capabilities into functional areas that highlight the unique strengths and potential growth opportunities for WiCyS members. By conducting thorough diagnostics and focused analyses, this partnership identifies the capabilities of WiCyS members and aligns them with industry standards to ensure that their skills are recognized and utilized to the fullest.