Cyberattacks increased two or threefold across nearly every tracked metric in 2023, as cybercriminals continued to ramp up and diversify their attacks. To give the world’s defenders the actionable threat intelligence needed to safeguard against this relentless surge in cybercrime, we’ve compiled our research into the 2024 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report.

In this report, we bring you the insights from that data. It’s part of how we empower organizations to proactively navigate cyber risks, strengthen security approaches, and respond to incidents with unmatched efficiency. This report helps because it gathers real-world information from organizations like yours, so you can learn which threats really a#ect your peers–and how you can face them.

In this report, Coalition Security Labs’ dedicated security research team dives into data derived from Coalition’s extensive threat collection technologies and provides critical information to help security professionals, brokers, and businesses navigate the current cyber risk landscape. Readers will gain insights into how to prioritize vulnerabilities, understand which technologies threat actors are targeting, and compare cyber hygiene across industries.

Our goal is that this report serves as a crucial resource in enhancing your strategies and defenses in the battle to protect your organization’s assets and integrity against insider risks. This survey, capturing responses from 467 cybersecurity professionals across diverse sectors, seeks to uncover the nature of insider threat challenges faced by organizations, focusing on understanding the factors driving these threats, their detection and mitigation complexities, and the effectiveness of insider threat programs.

Marking its fourth year of publication, the Red Report 2024 provides a critical dive into the evolving threat landscape, presenting a detailed analysis of adversaries’ most prevalent tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used throughout the past year. Conducted by Picus Labs, this annual study examines over 600,000 malware samples and assesses more than 7 million instances of MITRE ATT&CK techniques. It gives security teams invaluable insights into the techniques that pose the most critical cyber risk to organizations.

Our respondents were asked to open up about the challenges they’ve faced while securing their digital enterprises over the past year. We are at a critical juncture in digital transformation. The distributed workforce is now the norm, and companies must support remote productivity of which cloud will play a key role. This requires leaders to plan security for hybrid infrastructure – a distinct departure from the inherited on-premises strategies of most organizations. That’s why there is a lot to learn from this year’s temperature check on the industry.

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 healthcare sector is particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity risks and the stakes for patient care and safety are particularly high. Healthcare facilities are attractive targets for cyber criminals in light of their size, technological dependence, sensitive data, and unique vulnerability to disruptions. And cyber incidents in healthcare are on the rise.

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.

By leveraging its huge user dataset, Hornet security is uniquely positioned to conduct a detailed examination of email-based threats and distill this into important insights for IT security professionals. Email continues to be an essential communication channel. However, in our analysis of more than 45 billion emails, 36.4% are categorized as “unwanted.” 96.4% of unwanted emails are spam or rejected outright due to external indicators, and just over 3.6% were flagged as malicious.

The 5th edition of Wipro’s State of Cybersecurity Report (SOCR) offers a perspective and framework to help enterprises achieve cyber resilience. You will find a wealth of data and actionable insights covering attacks, breaches and law, along with the state of business cyber capabilities across geographies and industry sectors, plus future trends.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2021 reveals that US firms are a global leader in cyber readiness, with more classified as ’cyber experts,’ (25%) compared to other countries. But there is still work to be done when it when it comes to dealing with ransomware and phishing emails, as US businesses are the most likely to pay a ransom. In this year’s report, we saw a disparity when it came to the level of cyber expertise US businesses have versus the actions they take when an attack actually occurs.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2022 reveals that both the frequency and cost of cyber attacks are rising for US businesses, and the pandemic is continuing to have lasting effects on the cyber security landscape. While the US remains a global leader in cyber maturity, they are also most likely to pay a cyber-related ransom. To gauge businesses’ preparedness to combat cyber incidents and breaches, Hiscox surveyed over 5,000 professionals responsible for their company’s cyber security from the US, UK, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. This includes key findings from over 900 professionals from the US.

The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report 2023 reveals that small business owners are getting smarter, but so are cyber criminals. Although 63% of small businesses in the US are cyber intermediates and 4% are cyber experts, almost half (41%) experienced at least one cyber-attack during the past year. The report surveyed over 5,000 professionals responsible for their company’s cyber security strategy from the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, and The Netherlands, including more than 500 US small business professionals.

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.

As organizations ramp up adoption of AI, edge and multi-cloud infrastructure, they will need broader and deeper visibility into expanding environments. This panoramic view is only possible when all relevant teams and stakeholders are aligned. That’s why organizations should ingrain security into all processes, functions and phases of development. In 2024, collaboration will be essential as resilience becomes non-negotiable. With communication, trust and a commitment to shared strengths, organizations can remain resilient through adversity next year and beyond.

When you overlap Resilience’s claims data with data from ransomware incident response partner Coveware, blockchain analytics firm Chainanalysis, security partner Zscaler, and security firm Sophos, it reveals five key findings that impact both network defenders and the cyber insurance industry at large.

The BlackBerry Global Threat Intelligence Report has become a key reference guide for cybersecurity professionals worldwide, including CISOs and other decision makers, to keep the security community informed of the latest cybersecurity threats and challenges globally affecting their industries and platforms. This report covers threats encountered in June 2023 through August 2023. It examines the challenges faced by many industry sectors, with a focus on protecting government and public entities, risks within the healthcare sectors, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and the importance of protecting vulnerable entities within the financial sector.

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.

The report presents the findings of the analysis of statistical data obtained using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) distributed antivirus network. The data was received from those KSN users who gave their voluntary consent to have data anonymously transferred from their computers and processed for the purpose described in the KSN Agreement for the Kaspersky product installed on their computer.

Our findings in this year’s Skybox Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report, detailed below, make the urgency of the situation abundantly clear. Vulnerabilities have skyrocketed, eclipsing all previous records. Attacks are increasing in velocity and impact. Threat actors are targeting more sensitive assets and inflicting more damage. They are better organized—backed increasingly by large crime rings and nation-states—and are employing more sophisticated tools and tactics, such as a growing assortment of backdoor malware and advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks.