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 9th edition of the Edgescan Vulnerability Stats Report 2024. This report demonstrates the state of full stack security based on thousands of security assessments and penetration tests on millions of assets that were performed globally from the Edgescan Cybersecurity Platform in 2023. This is an analysis of vulnerabilities detected in the systems of hundreds of organizations across a wide range of industries – from the Fortune 500 to medium and small businesses. The report provides a statistical model of the most common weaknesses faced by organizations to enable data-driven decisions for managing risks and exposures more effectively.

The report stated that “Equifax lacked a comprehensive IT asset inventory, meaning it lacked a complete understanding of the assets it owned. This made it difficult, if not impossible, for Equifax to know if vulnerabilities existed on its networks. If a vulnerability cannot be found, it cannot be patched.” The Equifax case is one example of an existential and underreported cybersecurity issue: the vast majority of organizations do not have comprehensive visibility of every asset they need to secure.

This report presents a combined look at what Google knows about zero-day exploitation, bringing together analysis from TAG and Mandiant holistically for the first time. The goal of this report is not to detail each individual exploit or exploitation incident, but look for trends, gaps, lessons learned, and successes across the year as a whole. As always, research in this space is dynamic and the numbers may adjust due to the ongoing discovery of past incidents through digital forensic investigations.

This report is the first attempt to map out the most critical identity security weaknesses in the hybrid enterprise environment. These Identity Threat Exposures (ITEs), gathered from hundreds of live production environments, are the key weaknesses that allow attackers to access credentials, escalate privileges and move laterally, both on-prem and in the cloud.

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.

The Flashpoint 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report offers a critical examination of the current threat environment. This year’s analysis goes beyond traditional threat intelligence, incorporating Flashpoint’s unparalleled data and insights to shed light on cyber threats, geopolitical turmoil, and escalating physical conflicts around the world. The goal: help your organization to strengthen its defenses, ensure operational resilience, and proactively confront multifaceted threats—thereby safeguarding critical assets, preventing financial losses, and protecting lives.

Attackers continue to gain ground. In 2023, the average duration of attacks increased by 403%. Read about DDoS trends and what you can do about them in Zayo’s DDoS Insights Report. This report contains insights, analysis, and conclusions about each industry under attack. Further, it provides you the steps to take to ensure your business isn’t harmed by the DDoS attacks heading your way.

The report sheds light on the sectors most at risk, with technical services vendors leading the breach statistics for the fourth consecutive year. Despite this, a silver lining emerges as a significant portion of these vendors demonstrated improvements in their cyber ratings postbreach. The healthcare sector continues to bear the brunt of these incidents, reinforcing the need for heightened security measures within this critical industry.

The report presents the industry’s most comprehensive analysis of intelligence from 2023. It covers threat actors and their playbook of targets, methods, and attacks to help you eliminate blind spots in your current security posture. groups, and more for the year ahead. Wherever you are in your threat intelligence journey, you can use this report as a roadmap. It will help you strengthen your operations, create a forward looking strategy, and protect your organization’s data, intellectual property, and brand reputation.

Our research sheds light on a concerning trend: 90% of exposed valid secrets remain active for at least five days after the author is notified. This finding emphasizes a crucial lesson in code security: while detecting vulnerabilities is critical, the real challenge lies in remediation. Security, we believe, must be a shared responsibility across all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), not just the domain of specialized teams. Raising awareness about these seemingly minor lapses is essential for mitigating supply chain risks.

In this special year-end edition of the WatchTower Digest, we discuss the threats we observed and investigated in 2023, and look ahead to the 2024 threat landscape. Our findings are based on SentinelOne’s Singularity telemetry across tens of millions of endpoints, operating across a diverse number of industries and global geographies.

The report raises a number of interesting findings, which you’ll read about in the pages to come. However, one through line that emerges is the need for reliable threat intelligence and its impact on threat hunters’ ability to do their jobs well. Threat intelligence, or lack thereof, is a commonality across the top challenges respondents identified. Access to threat intelligence also affects nearly every aspect of how respondents say they do their jobs.

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.

The goal of this report is to help security professionals remain at the forefront of securing organizations, as its content is based on real-world techniques employed by attackers to target cloud-based environments. As commercial adoption of cloud technologies continues, cloud-focused malware campaigns have increased in sophistication and number – a collective effort to safeguard both large enterprises and small businesses alike is key.

In this report, we shed light on these vulnerabilities and how they impact commercial and federal organizations today. We provide insights from a survey of IT security and data science leaders navigating these challenges. We share predictions driven by data from HiddenLayer’s experiences securing AI in enterprise environments. Lastly, we reveal cutting-edge advancements in security controls for AI in all its forms.

This report sets itself apart with our proprietary data and insights derived from comprehensive detection coverage coupled with human-led expert investigation and confirmation of threats. The data that powers Deepwatch results from thousands of expert investigations across hundreds of thousands of protected systems. This report examines the broader landscape of threats that leverage techniques and other tradecraft. We also track specific threats associating malicious or suspicious activity with a new or existing threat activity cluster, specific malware variants, abuse of legitimate tools, and known threat actors. ATI continually tracks and analyzes threats throughout the year, publishing weekly threat intelligence reports.

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.

Today’s cyber landscape is threatened by a multitude of malicious actors who have the tools to conduct large-scale fraud schemes, hold our money and data for ransom, and endanger our national security. Profit-driven cybercriminals and nation-state adversaries alike have the capability to paralyze entire school systems, police departments, healthcare facilities, and individual private sector entities. The FBI continues to combat this evolving cyber threat. Our strategy focuses on building strong partnerships with the private sector; removing threats from US networks; pulling back the cloak of anonymity many of these actors hide behind; and hitting cybercriminals where it hurts: their wallets, including their virtual wallets.

The 2023 Arctic Wolf State of Cybersecurity Trends Report took the temperature of organizations around the globe and sought to understand not only their current and future concerns, but how they were responding to the problems that had plagued them in previous years. Our research shows that, despite the enduring nature of many of these challenges, organizations are making measurable strides in areas where progress has proven limited in previous years.