Whitepapers: CrowdStrike 2021 Global Threat Report
This annual report offers important lessons and recommendations for security teams operating in today’s environment, where visibility and speed are more critical than ever.
As 2021 began, the world faced the possibility that we have not entirely put the unprecedented challenges of 2020 behind us. Healthcare sector entities continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that, beyond the tragic human toll of the disease, fueled numerous incidents of malicious cyber-activity.
The ransomware adversaries that proliferated in 2020 are as motivated as ever, evidenced by the introduction of increasingly damaging tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).
Important details you’ll learn in this report include:
- How state-sponsored adversaries infiltrated networks to steal valuable data on vaccine research and government responses to the pandemic
- How criminal adversaries introduced new business models to expand their “big game hunting” ransomware activities — and made them even more potent with the addition of blackmail and extortion techniques
- How both eCrime and targeted intrusion adversaries stepped up their development efforts, deploying a variety of inventive new methods to evade detection and confound defenders
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