With the goal of creating fast, evasive, and sophisticated threats and campaigns, malicious actors are always on the prowl for new technologies to abuse, significant world events to exploit, and mismanaged and vulnerable assets to compromise. This is what we’ve observed in the first half of the year, with cybercriminals injecting new technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) to time-tested attacks, exploiting global events such as the Olympics and national elections for ill gain and targeting misconfigured and exposed assets to surreptitiously invade systems and steal sensitive data.
In years past, cybersecurity has metamorphosed to keep abreast with increasingly complex and calculated attacks. And in the years to come, the security industry — and the way in which business leaders and security teams tackle ever-changing threats and risks — would need to stay ahead of the curve via robust data-driven insights and a holistic, risk-based approach to keep systems and data safe.
In this report, we highlight the most pressing cybersecurity events we’ve covered and the notable security trends we’ve observed in the first six months of 2024. To give a clearer picture of the cyberthreat landscape, our midyear report also features data from our eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) solution and our cyber risk lifecycle management solution, the Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM), which are both part of our flagship cybersecurity platform, Vision One.