Cryptocurrency usage is growing faster than ever before. Across all cryptocurrencies tracked by Chainalysis, total transaction volume grew to $15.8 trillion in 2021, up 567% from 2020’s totals. Given that roaring adoption, it’s no surprise that more cybercriminals are using cryptocurrency. But the fact that the increase in illicit transaction volume was just 79% — nearly an order of magnitude lower than overall adoption — might be the biggest surprise of all.

The events of this year have made clear that although blockchains are inherently transparent, the industry has room for improvement in this respect. There are opportunities to connect off-chain data on liabilities with on-chain data to provide better visibility, and transparency of DeFi, where all transactions are on-chain, is a standard that all crypto services should strive to achieve. As more and more value is transferred to the blockchain, all potential risks will become transparent, and we will have more complete visibility.

The goal of the index is simple: We combine on-chain data and real-world data to measure which countries are leading the world in grassroots crypto adoption. Grassroots crypto adoption isn’t about which countries have the highest raw transaction volumes — anyone could probably guess that the biggest, wealthiest countries are far ahead there. Instead, we want to highlight the countries where average, everyday people are embracing crypto the most. To do that, we’ve designed the Global Crypto Adoption Index to identify countries where the most people are putting the greatest share of their wealth into cryptocurrency.

2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency, as the industry rebounded from the scandals, blowups, and price declines of 2022. With crypto assets rebounding and market activity growing over the course of 2023, many believe that crypto winter is ending, and a new growth phase may soon be upon us. As always, we have to caveat by saying that these figures are lower bound estimates based on inflows to the illicit addresses we’ve identified today.

This report was compiled by analyzing data captured from billions of cloud assets on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud scanned by the Orca Cloud Security Platform. Leveraging unique insights into current and emerging cloud risks captured from the Orca Cloud Security Platform, this report reveals the most commonly found, yet dangerous, cloud security risks.

The biggest shift the IBM X-Force team observed in 2023 was a pronounced surge in cyberthreats targeting identities. Attackers have a historical inclination to choose the path of least resistance in pursuit of their objectives. In this era, the focus has shifted towards logging in rather than hacking in, highlighting the relative ease of acquiring credentials compared to exploiting vulnerabilities or executing phishing campaigns. Lack of identity protections was corroborated by IBM X-Force penetration testing data for 2023, which ranked identification and authentication failures as the second most common finding.

This report focuses primarily on hundreds of digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) engagements conducted by the Arctic Wolf Incident Response team. The vast majority of these engagements were initiated as part of cyber insurance policies, through our partnerships with insurance providers and privacy law practitioners.

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.

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.

The Workplace Identity Security Trends and Challenges report investigates the identity security landscape and challenges facing organizations today. The research finds that many struggle to build an integrated and comprehensive identity security strategy, relying on disconnected tools and practices that create inefficiencies and leave organizations seriously vulnerable to attacks and breaches.

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.

The 10th annual Imperva Bad Bot Report is a threat research report that analyzes and investigates the automated attacks occurring daily, sneaking past traditional detection methods and wreaking havoc on the internet. It is based on data collected from the company’s global network throughout 2022, which includes 6 trillion blocked bad bot requests, anonymized across thousands of domains. . In addition, this report offers meaningful information and guidance about the nature and impact of bots to help organizations better understand the potential risks of bot traffic when not properly managed.

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.

Connectivity is continuing to transform the Automotive and Smart Mobility ecosystem, increasing cybersecurity risks as more functionality is exposed. 2023 marked the beginning of a new era in automotive cybersecurity. Each attack carries greater significance today, and may have global financial and operational repercussions for various stakeholders. Upstream’s 2024 Global Annual Cybersecurity Report examines how cybersecurity risks have evolved from experimental hacks into large-scale risks, focusing on safety and trust, operational availability, data privacy, and financial implications.

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.

This report aims, simply, to help you build a proactive defense that anticipates and thwarts tomorrow’s threats. So, for the second year running we rallied the community for the largest predictions survey the cybersecurity awareness community has seen. We’ve harnessed their expertise, experience, and frontline intel.

2024 is poised to be a hotbed for new challenges in cybersecurity. As both economic and political terrains continue to undergo digitization, enterprises will increasingly leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the cloud, and Web3 technologies. While these innovations are expected to lend a hand to organizations, they also provide opportunities for cybercriminals by promising big returns, more streamlined operations on wider impact zones, and more targeted victims. In this report, we detail the focal points of next year’s threat landscape, along with insights and recommended mitigation measures from our team of cybersecurity experts that are designed to guide decision-makers toward well-informed choices.

This report is broken into four different threat types: identity, cloud, computer-based, and phishing. Keep in mind, though, that these threats are tightly related. Compromise of user identities can occur through phishing and can impact an organization’s cloud assets and endpoints, or malicious activity on an endpoint may be indicative of an exploited vulnerability. We’ll highlight that interconnectivity throughout.

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 Cyber Security Report (formerly Cyber Threat Report) is an annual analysis of the current cyber threat landscape based on real-world data collected and studied by Hornet security’s dedicated Security Lab team. Hornet security processes more than two billion emails every month. By analyzing the threats identified in these communications, combined with a detailed knowledge of the wider threat landscape, the Security Lab reveals major trends and can make informed projections for the future of Microsoft 365 security threats, enabling businesses to act accordingly. Those findings and data are contained within this report.

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.