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.

This report looks back at the major cyber security events of 2023, offering insights and analysis to help understand and prepare for the challenges ahead. Our goal is to provide valuable information to organizations, policy makers, and cyber security professionals, helping them to build stronger defenses in an increasingly digital world. Check Point Research reports that threat actors in hacking forums have started making use of AI tools like ChatGPT, in order to create malware and attack tools such as info-stealers and encryptors.

Blackpoint observed attempts to gain initial access and move laterally through an organization, specifically targeting endpoint devices, constituted 95% of the threat landscape seen on these devices. A common thread you will find throughout our threat report is the subject of initial access. Initial access covers the various methods a threat actor may use to gain unauthorized entry into a computer network or system. It is where a threat actor begins, and, when up against Blackpoint’s 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), is detained.

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.

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, our customers rely on us more than ever to protect their sensitive data, systems and operations from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. From ransomware attacks to malware to crypto-jacking, the adversaries we confront are relentless and evolving, requiring us to be continuously vigilant and proactive. we’ve added some new perspectives that feature feedback from our 24/7, 365 SOC analysts, market insight provided by a reputable cybersecurity insurance provider and even included the voices of some of our partners.

Our research was conducted to understand how the adoption of new AI is affecting the threats stakeholders face, how they are responding, and AI’s role in prevention, threat detection, incident response, and recovery workflows. AI’s effects on the threat landscape are already being felt. A majority of survey participants (74%) report their organizations are seeing significant impacts from AI-powered cyber threats. An even greater majority (89%) believe that AI-powered threats will continue to trouble their organizations well into the future.

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.

In this report, he have to caveat by saying that these figures are lower bound estimates based on inflows to the illicit addresses we’ve identified today. One year from now, these totals will almost certainly be higher, as we identify more illicit addresses and incorporate their historic activity into our estimates. 2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency, as the industry rebounded from the scandals, blowups, and price declines of 2022.

This report offers insights onto the threats and suspicious activity across those flows. It also provides strategic, tactical, and operational information on all traffic in all directions utilizing the MITRE ATT&CK framework. In additional, the report highlights the applications, protocols, and tools running on these networks.

This report will help users to understand the nature, scope and impact of the threats they face, and will help security teams tailor their program and messaging accordingly. A security awareness program should be an essential component of any organization’s security strategy, but by itself it isn’t enough. Our data shows that 96% of people who took a risky action knew that what they were doing might be risky, so it seems that key information is getting through. However, knowing what to do and doing it are two different things. The challenge is now not just awareness, but behavior change.

The Arctic Wolf State of Cybersecurity: 2024 Trends Report took the temperature of organizations around the globe and sought to understand how they were responding to these areas of challenge. Our research revealed that ransomware continues to be a perennial area of concern. For the third year in a row, ransomware ranked as the top concern for respondents. This concern is not without merit when we consider that 45% of the organizations we spoke with admitted to being the victim of a ransomware attack within the last 12 months, a 3% increase over last year.

This report provides strategic recommendations to bolster your security posture. But our mission extends beyond immediate threat mitigation. A preventative approach to cybersecurity—focusing on proactive measures and cost-effectiveness—embodies the ReliaQuest core principles. This report charts threat actors’ evolution, but also anticipates potential shifts in their TTPs as we look to the future. We offer a forward-looking perspective to prepare organizations for emerging challenges they are likely to face.

In the M-Trends 2024 report it features data and other security metrics that readers have come to expect, highlights zero-day use by espionage and financially-motivated attackers, and dives deep into evasive actions conducted particularly by Chinese espionage groups. we share our learnings with the greater security community, building on our dedication to providing critical knowledge to those tasked with defending organizations. The information in this report has been sanitized to protect the identities of victims and their data.

The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. This report also considers both securing the use of GenAI and using GenAI to better secure the enterprise. Differing priorities from different functional leaders and external stakeholders will require security and risk management leaders to build stronger relationships.

The State of Email & Collaboration Security 2024 report is based on an in-depth global survey of 1,100 information technology and cybersecurity professionals. Mimecast commissioned UK-based research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct the survey, which took place during October and November 2023.Survey participants worked at organizations ranging from 250 to 500 employees to more than 10,000 employees.

In the second half of 2023, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from the first half of the year. Most of the statistical indicators dropped accordingly. Yet, there are subtleties we would like to draw attention to, as they highlight dangerous spots on the cyberthreat landscape.

In 2023, malicious email threats bypassing secure email gateways (SEGs) increased by more than 100% . In other words, your email security solutions aren’t stopping the threats you think they are. 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.

Our sixth annual retrospective, this report is based on in-depth analysis of nearly 60,000 threats detected across our more than 1,000 customers’ endpoints, networks, cloud infrastructure, identities, and SaaS applications over the past year. This report provides you with a comprehensive view of this threat landscape, including new twists on existing adversary techniques, and the trends that our team has observed as adversaries continue to organize, commoditize, and ratchet up their cybercrime operations.

In this year’s Annual Cyber Threat Monitor Report, we take a look back at the key events that shaped the cyber threat landscape in 2023, as well as looking ahead at the year to come, sharing insights from our Cyber Threat Intelligence team here at NCC Group. 2023 showed signs that the international community is beginning to take the threats from cyber adversaries more seriously. We saw several examples of coordinated law enforcement action against criminal groups, including key ransomware operators and individuals believed to be acting on behalf of foreign intelligence services.

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.

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.