Security News > 2022 > January > Cybersecurity industry trends from 2021 bound to shape this year’s threat landscape

Bugcrowd released its report to spotlight the key cybersecurity trends from 2021, including the rise in the adoption of crowdsourced security due to the global shift to hybrid and remote work models, and the rapid digital transformation associated with it.

Ransomware overtook personal data breaches as the threat that dominated cybersecurity news across the world in 2021.

In turn, security buyers invested heavily to incentivise ethical hackers to find critical threats, causing P1 and P2 bugs to make up 24% of all valid submissions for the year.

In the past, Advanced Persistent Threats were defined by highly advanced tactics and clandestine operations, but this approach started to shift in 2021 toward more commonplace tactics such as so-called N-day exploits, which are attacks on known vulnerabilities.

2021 was the year Vulnerability Disclosure became a major concern for government agencies in particular.

Total valid submissions in the Government sector were up an astonishing 1,000% for the year.

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