According to an official release, CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a cybersecurity platform, announced the findings of the 2024 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, highlighting a surge in adversaries leveraging stolen identity credentials to exploit gaps in cloud environments and maximise the stealth, speed and impact of cyberattacks. The report also includes the threats for 2024, including the disruption of global elections and the exploitation of generative AI to lower the barrier of entry and launch more sophisticated attacks.
Reportedly, the average breakout time is down to about 62 minutes from 84 in the previous year (with the fastest recorded attack coming in at 2 minutes and 7 seconds). Once initial access was obtained, it took about 31 seconds for an adversary to drop initial discovery tools in an attempt to compromise victims, as per insights from the report.
“To defeat relentless adversaries, organisations must embrace a platform-approach, fueled by threat intelligence and hunting, to protect identity, prioritise cloud protection, and give comprehensive visibility into areas of enterprise risk,” Adam Meyers, head, counter adversary operations, CrowdStrike, explained.
CrowdStrike plans to provide customers with adversary-driven intelligence, human-led analysis and the technology required to combat threat. This approach is expected to combine CrowdStrike Falcon® Intelligence with CrowdStrike Falcon® OverWatch’s team of threat hunters to fuel the AI-native CrowdStrike XDR Falcon® platform to accelerate investigations, remediate threats and stop breaches.
