M-Trends 2024: Our View from the Frontlines (from Mandiant)
Are Your Passwords in the Green?
- Increased targeting of edge devices
- A more than 50% growth in zero-day usage over the same reporting period in 2022
- More "living off the land"
- The median dwell time is now 13 days for non-ransomware investigations, the lowest it's ever been.
- 54% of organizations first learned of a compromise from an external source; 46% first identified evidence of a compromise internally
- The most common initial infection vectors were exploits (38%), phishing (17%), prior compromise (15%), and stolen credentials (10%)
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How to Prevent War with China with Dmitri Alperovitch and Chris Krebs
Dmitri predicts war with China in 2028.