Threat Report

The Threat Report: Fall 2022

In the third quarter of 2022, Trellix delivered a new, powerful resource to support the future of extended detection and response (XDR) and cybersecurity. The Trellix Advanced Research Center, comprised of hundreds of elite security analysts and researchers was established to help customers detect, respond, and remediate the latest cybersecurity threats. Threat actors also made […]

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Global Threat Report, Vol.1 2022

“The future of security is open. In a world of dynamic, fast-moving, and well-resourced threat actors, digital security’s best hope lies in bringing like-minded defenders together around platforms that are as open and inter-operable as possible.” – Nate Fick U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace & Digital Policy and Formerly Elastic Security General Manager and

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Cloud and Threat Report: Global Cloud and Malware Trends

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this edition of the Cloud Threat Report, we examine the past twelve months of malware downloads from the cloud and web. Trojans accounted for the overwhelming majority of malware downloads, with attackers using a variety of different Trojan families and social engineering techniques to target their victims. The majority of malware downloads

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Threat Report Q4 2020

Foreword Welcome to the Q4 2020 issue of the ESET Threat Report! 2020 was many things (“typical” not being one of them), and it sure feels good to be writing about it in the past tense. As if really trying to prove a point, the pandemic picked up new steam in the last quarter, bringing

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Sophos 2021 Threat Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Sophos 2021 Threat Report covers topic areas into which Sophos has gained insight from the work over the past 12 months by SophosLabs on malware and spam analysis, and by the Sophos Rapid Response, Cloud Security, and Data Science teams. These aspects of our daily work protecting customers provide insight into the

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Q1 2020 Threat Report

Quarterly Focus In March and April, we recorded the most unusual increase in DDoS attacks ever. Compared with 2019 Q1, YoY, the number of attacks increased by 278.17%, and QoQ increased by 542.46%. Q1 is generally considered the “off season” for DDoS attacks and hence it is rather unusual to observe such behaviour during this

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ESET Threat Report Q1 2020

Foreword Welcome to the first quarterly ESET Threat Report! The first quarter of 2020 was, without a doubt, defined by the outbreak of COVID-19 — now a pandemic that has put much of the world under lockdown, disrupting peoples’ lives in unprecedented ways. In the face of these developments, many businesses were forced to swiftly

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Monthly Threat Report – Special edition: April 2020

Protecting the Remote Worker Lead Analyst: Jon Heimerl — CISSP, Sr. Manager, Global Threat Intelligence Center Telecommuting. Virtual workplace. Teleworking. Working remotely. E-working. Regardless of what we call it, the purpose is to enable employees to function effectively from remote locations. In the current climate of the coronavirus pandemic, many organizations have already implemented a

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BlackBerry Cylance 2020 Annual Threat Report

Blackberry has released its annual 2020 Threat Report, which examines the latest adversarial techniques and tactics analysed by BlackBerry Cylance threat researchers, and provides guidance organisations can leverage to mitigate risk. Key findings include the continued evolution of nation-state backed threat actor groups, the increased availability of sophisticated attack toolsets, as well as analysis on

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