This year we find that cyber debt continues to build with GenAI, rise of machine identities, and increasing third- and fourth-party risks. This growth in vulnerable identities, boosted by the ongoing AI transformation and pervasive cloud computing, is a here-and-now threat ready to be exploited by bad actors with the AI-powered ability to execute at scale. Perhaps the only thing more disturbing than the emergence of deepfake videos is our collective overconfidence that we won’t be fooled by them.

The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report is the industry’s preeminent source on adversary intelligence, examining the emerging adversary trends of the past year. The purpose of this report is to arm you, the world’s security professionals and dedicated cyber defenders, with the knowledge you need to keep a step ahead of these threat actors — and to never, ever underestimate them.

This report gives a detailed analysis of key adversarial behaviors, techniques, and trends we saw in 2024, highlighting the escalating risks that non-enterprise businesses and managed service providers (MSPs) need to be aware of This analysis will empower organizations of all sizes to strengthen their defenses against modern cyber threats by giving them actionable insights into a constantly evolving threat landscape.

Hornet security’s cybersecurity solutions process more than 4 and a half 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 security trends, threat actor actions 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.

In this report, nearly half of organizations anticipate a threefold increase in the total number of identities, with machine identities squarely in the driver’s seat (but largely under-secured and over-privileged). This growth in vulnerable identities, boosted by the ongoing AI transformation and pervasive cloud computing, is a here-and-now threat ready to be exploited by bad actors with the AI-powered ability to execute at scale. In the last 12 months, 93% of organizations suffered two or more identity-related breaches.

In this report our threat researchers have observed significant growth in the breadth, scope, and complexity of threats that organizations are confronting. While it is difficult to be certain exactly how much of this activity is directly attributable to the generative AI boom, we expected to see security leaders expressing concerns about a rise in AI-powered cyber threats.

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.

The 2024 Cybersecurity Threat Report aims to be a crucial resource for CISOs, CIOs, and security leaders seeking to navigate this complex environment. By analyzing billions of threat data points collected across our vast customer base, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the current threat landscape and offer actionable insights for strengthening organizations’ cybersecurity postures.

In today’s crowded and fast-paced technology environment, finance organizations must efficiently and securely manage access to an ever-increasing range of digital services and resources. This puts tremendous pressure on their IT and security teams to keep operations running smoothly and cyber defenses ironclad, even as their exposure to cyberthreats grows. At the core of this challenge is identity security, which ensures authorized individuals gain access to systems and that imposters and threats are shut out.

1Password’s 2022 State of Access Report, an annual survey of North American workers’ sentiments and behaviors around cybersecurity and other critical aspects of modern work, reveals that the acute burnout detected in last year’s survey has paved the way for a widespread sense of distraction in a time of “permacrisis.” When security protocols and practices aren’t automated, even the most well-intentioned employees can unwittingly cause a breach.

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.

The 2024 edition of the DNSFilter Security Report is about LLM’s, AI, ChatGPT, threats by region, predictions for the upcoming year and more. In December of 2023, we even launched a Generative AI category to assist our customers in blocking these types of sites for better protection over PII and plagiarism.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.