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CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report: Resilient Businesses Fight Relentless Adversaries News

CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report: Resilient Businesses Fight Relentless Adversaries

The CrowdStrike 2023 Global Threat Report, among the most trusted and comprehensive research on the modern threat landscape, explores the most significant security events and trends of the previous year, as well as the adversaries driving this activity.

The latest edition of the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report comes at a critical time for organizations around the world. Adversaries have become more sophisticated, relentless and destructive in their attacks, as evidenced by the emergence of several trends in 2022 that threaten enterprise productivity and global stability. It is imperative that businesses pay attention to these changes in the threat landscape and respond with a stronger, more proactive defense.

Nation-state activity was front and center throughout 2022. The year started ominously as Russia’s deadly war of aggression in Ukraine brought about a terrible human toll, threatened international order and put countless global organizations at risk of spillover cyberattacks. China state-nexus adversaries accelerated their cyber espionage campaigns throughout the year, and Iranian actors launched destructive “lock-and-leak” operations using ransomware.

Adversaries continued to adapt and refine their techniques, which included re-weaponizing vulnerabilities, a greater focus on cloud exploitation and a rise in malware-free attacks. We saw a dramatic increase in advertisements from access brokers, who acquire access to organizations and provide or sell it to other actors, including ransomware operators. CrowdStrike Intelligence identified a significant increase in access broker activity throughout 2022, with more than 2,500 advertisements identified — a 112% jump from 2021. An especially popular tactic was the abuse of compromised credentials acquired via information stealers or purchased on the criminal underground, reflecting a growing interest in targeting identities that we also saw last year: Our 2022 report found 80% of cyberattacks leveraged identity-based techniques.

In 2022, CrowdStrike Intelligence began tracking 33 new actorsraising the total number tracked to more than 200. Stopping breaches requires an understanding of these adversaries, including their motivations and the techniques they use to target organizations. Below are some of the trends and findings we explore in greater detail throughout this year’s report:

  • 71% of attacks detected were malware-free (up from 62% in 2021) and interactive intrusions (hands on keyboard activity) increased 50% in 2022 – Outlining how sophisticated human adversaries increasingly look to evade antivirus protection and outsmart machine-only defenses.
  • 112% year-over-year increase in access broker advertisements on the dark web – Illustrating the value of and demand for identity and access credentials in the underground economy.
  • Cloud exploitation grew by 95% and the number of cases involving ‘cloud-conscious’ threat actors nearly tripled year-over-year – More evidence adversaries are increasingly targeting cloud environments.
  • Adversaries are re-weaponizing and re-exploiting vulnerabilities – Spilling over from the end of 2021, Log4Shell continued to ravage the internet, while both known and new vulnerabilities like ProxyNotShell and Follina – just two of the more than 900 vulnerabilities and 30 zero-days Microsoft issued patches for in 2022 – were broadly exploited as nation-nexus and eCrime adversaries circumvented patches and side stepped mitigations.
  • eCrime actors moving beyond ransom payments for monetization – 2022 saw a 20% increase in the number of adversaries conducting data theft and extortion campaigns.
  • China-nexus espionage surged across all 39 global industry sectors and 20 geographic regions tracked by CrowdStrike Intelligence– Rise in China-nexus adversary activity shows that organizations across the world and in every vertical must be vigilant against the threat from Beijing.
  • Average eCrime breakout time is now 84 minutes– This is down from 98 minutes in 2021, demonstrating the extensive speed of today’s threat actors.
  • The cyber impact of Russia-Ukraine war was overhyped but not insignificant – CrowdStrike saw a jump in Russia-nexus adversaries employing intelligence gathering tactics and even fake ransomware, suggesting the Kremlin’s intent to widen targeting sectors and regions where destructive operations are considered politically risky.
  • An uptick in social engineering tactics targeting human interactions – Tactics such as vishing direct victims to download malware and SIM swapping to circumvent multifactor authentication (MFA).

CrowdStrike: Stopping Breaches So Customers Can Move Forward

The 2023 Global Threat Report shows security must parallel the slope of technology innovation. As enterprise technology matures, security must also evolve to match the sophistication of the technology organizations rely on. This slope of innovation applies to adversary activity as well: With every innovation we achieve, we can expect adversaries to seek new ways to exploit it.

At CrowdStrike, our mission today is the same as when we started: to stop breaches so our customers can move forward. Our focus is on delivering the platform, technology and intelligence needed to keep you ahead of the adversary. This is why we’ve unified and delivered critical protections like endpoint and extended detection and response, identity threat protection, cloud security, vulnerability and risk management, threat intelligence and much more — all from a single platform.

DOWNLOAD THE CROWDSTRIKE 2023 GLOBAL THREAT REPORT

The report will be extremely useful for organizing further joint work to protect the world from those who wish to do harm. Security starts with knowing who the enemies are that are targeting us, their tactics, and the vulnerabilities they will try to exploit. With this knowledge comes determination, the confidence that together we can win.

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