Security News > 2024 > May > Top 5 Global Cyber Security Trends of 2023, According to Google Report

It is taking less time for organisations to detect attackers in their environment, a report by Mandiant Consulting, a part of Google Cloud, has found.

Continued state-sponsored exploitation attacks: A Microsoft report found instances of nation-state cyber espionage rose last year.

Cyber criminals are changing tactics to bypass MFA. Now that multifactor authentication has become a standard security practice in many organisations, attackers are exploring new, creative tactics to bypass it.

SEE: New phishing and business email compromise campaigns increase in complexity, bypass MFA. The majority of business email compromise cases Mandiant responded to in 2023 involved the threat actor circumventing the user's MFA via AiTM. In the past, the relative complexity of setting up AiTM phishing infrastructure compared to traditional credential harvesting forms may have kept the number of these attacks low.

Red teams consist of cyber security analysts who plan and execute attacks against organisations for the purposes of identifying weaknesses.

The metrics reported in M-Trends 2024 are based on Mandiant Consulting investigations of targeted attack activity conducted between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023.

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