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Everyone reading this will likely remember the year 2020 for the rest of their lives. It was a year of hardship and grief for many, as well as tumultuous social and economic change on a global scale. For most of us in the business of stopping breaches and protecting organizations from cyberattacks, it was also perhaps the most active year in memory.
The onslaught was unrelenting, and for some organizations, overwhelming. As stay-at-home orders rippled around the world, we saw office blocks turn into ghost towns virtually overnight. Millions of workers retreated to hastily equipped home offices, creating a feeding frenzy for cyber predators spurred on by the windfall of easy access to sensitive data and networks. At the same time, fear, concern and curiosity surrounding COVID-19 provided the perfect cover for a record-setting increase in social engineering attacks from both eCrime actors and targeted intrusion adversaries.
As the saying goes, “the devil is in the details,” and in many ways, that sums up this year’s Global Threat Report. The details revealed in these pages are derived from firsthand observations of our frontline cyber responders and analysts, coupled with insights drawn directly from the unprecedented volume of crowdsourced threat telemetry we continuously collect and dissect on behalf of our customers.
Among the details you’ll learn in this report:
- 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
Additional Resources
- Download the 2021 Global Threat Report today.
- Hear highlights of adversary activity in 2020 from our SVP of Intelligence — register for the CrowdCast.
- Check out the Global Threat Report resource hub to learn more about today’s adversaries.
- Learn about recent intrusion trends, adversary tactics and highlights of notable intrusions identified by the CrowdStrike Falcon® OverWatch team in the 2020 Threat Hunting Report.
- Read about the trends and themes our Services team observed while responding to and remediating incidents around the globe in 2020 in the CrowdStrike Services Cyber Front Lines Report.
- See how true next-gen AV performs against today’s most sophisticated threats — start your free trial of CrowdStrike Falcon® Prevent™.
