Security News > 2020 > September > Microsoft releases Digital Defense Report detailing increasingly advanced cyberattacks
On Tuesday, Microsoft released its annual Digital Defense Report providing a glimpse of the trends shaping the cybersecurity landscape during the last year.
The Digital Defense Report analyzes cybersecurity threats from the second half of 2019 through the first half of 2020.
Microsoft notes the ever-evolving and broadening nature of IoT threats, stating that such attacks increased by more than one-third "In total attack volume" when comparing the last six months of 2019 to the first half of 2020.
In 2020, Microsoft reports an increase in brute force attacks targeting enterprise accounts.
"Given the leap in attack sophistication in the past year, it is more important than ever that we take steps to establish new rules of the road for cyberspace: that all organizations, whether government agencies or businesses, invest in people and technology to help stop attacks; and that people focus on the basics, including regular application of security updates, comprehensive backup policies and, especially, enabling multi-factor authentication," Burt said in the report.