Obrela Security Industries recently launched their H1 2022 Digital Universe Study, which provides detailed insight into this year’s security and threat landscape. The results provide a ‘funnel’ view of real-time visibility data, and allow organisations to gain a better understanding of how threats are security are developing, and how they can better protect themselves.
To put together this report, Obrela collected and analysed 1 PBs of logs as well as 100,000 devices. In this time, they detected 7,369 cyber incidents with an average response time of 7 seconds.
Using this, Obrela’s security team was able to find out what attack vectors were most prominent and what type of methods threat actors tended to execute when attempting to gain unauthorised access. Some of the more significant shifts within the threat landscape included:
A 16% increase in data breaches, as well as attacks that targeted end users as opposed to corporations.
A 6% upswing in zero-day attacks, particularly exploiting vulnerabilities.
A 12% surge in attacks related to internal threats, such as policy violations, privileged user activity and inadvertent actions.
Looking at particular attack methods, Obrela found that those most utilised were typically malware infection, reconnaissance, data exfiltration and phishing attacks, along with the exploitation of malicious insiders.
The study also looks into which sectors are most vulnerable to cyber criminals, with banking & financial services, and government/corporate being at the top of the list. This is mostly down to the monetary value that threat actors can extract from exploiting weaknesses in security, as well as the personal and confidential data they store on their servers. In addition, banking, finance, government and corporate sectors play an important role in global economic activity, making them an incredibly attractive target for a criminal looking to exfiltrate information and extort.
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