Security News > 2024 > April > Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever
Mandiant says the small increase over last year's figures, which were the lowest ever recorded for the region, could be due to data normalizing after Mandiant's work in Ukraine.
Its own red teamers are able to achieve their objectives within five to seven days, it said, and given that equally capable enemies are carrying out their attacks regularly, these times need to drop if the number of successful attacks are too.
These could encompass all manner of attacks involving data theft, malware, the exploitation of zero-days, cyber espionage - a hot topic of late that Mandiant has been involved in, and of course ransomware.
"Attackers regularly adjust their tactics, techniques, and procedures in order to achieve their objectives, which can be challenging for defenders," said Jurgen Kutscher, vice president of Mandiant Consulting at Google Cloud.
For the coming year, Mandiant expects defenders to be especially troubled by the upwards trend in zero-day exploits, as well as by a general increase in the work that attackers are putting in to evade security measures.
Attackers are also expected to increase attacks on edge devices and other tech where orgs typically struggle to apply robust detection.