Annual cybersecurity reports from major vendors like CrowdStrike typically include an overview of the threat landscape, detailed analysis of threat actors and attack techniques, and strategic recommendations for defense. CrowdStrike’s 2024 report highlights surges in cloud-conscious intrusions, increased use of identity-based attacks, and the evolving tactics of nation-state adversaries such as Fancy Bear and Jackbot Panda, emphasizing the importance of proactive and adversary-focused cybersecurity. #CrowdStrike #FancyBear #JackbotPanda
Keypoints
- Major cybersecurity vendor reports, like CrowdStrike’s annual threat report, generally comprise sections such as threat landscape overview, actor profiles, attack vectors, trends, and strategic recommendations, providing comprehensive insights into evolving cyber threats.
- These reports present key statistics, such as a 75% year-over-year increase in cloud environment intrusions and a 76% rise in victims listed on eCrime leak sites, indicating heightened threat activity.
- Notable trends include a significant rise in cloud-conscious attacks (+110%) and an increase in identity-based and social engineering attacks, showcasing adversaries’ shift to faster, stealthier, and more credential-focused techniques.
- Advanced adversaries like Fancy Bear and Jackbot Panda continue exploiting supply chains, trusted relationships, and cloud features, with new tactics such as trojanized software updates and actor-in-the-middle attacks becoming more prevalent.
- The reports underscore the growing threat of nation-state activities aiming for espionage, strategic data collection, and disruption, alongside the escalation of eCrime tactics like big game hunting and ransomware deployment.
- Rec urring themes involve the importance of adversary intelligence, rapid threat hunting, and automating responses—crucial for defending against increasingly sophisticated, AI-augmented, and agile cyber adversaries.
Source: Awesome Annual Security Reports - The reports in this collection are limited to content which does not require a paid subscription, membership, or service contract. (https://github.com/jacobdjwilson/awesome-annual-security-reports/)