Microsoft has released a new report outlining enterprise cyberattack trends in the past year (July 2019 – June 2020) and offering advice on how organizations can protect themselves.
Based on over 8 trillion daily security signals and observations from the company’s security and threat intelligence experts, the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2020 draws a distinction between attacks mounted by cybercriminals and those by nation-state attackers.
The cybercrime threat
In the past year, cybercriminals:
Were quick to exploit the fear and uncertainty associated with COVID-19 as a lure in phishing emails, and the popularity of some SaaS offerings and other services
Exploited the lack of basic security hygiene and well-known vulnerabilities to gain access to enterprise systems and networks
Exploited supply chain (in)security by hitting vulnerable third-party services, biggest cyber threats organizations today security
