FROM MICROSOFT
Digital Defence Report - 2020
Gain access to insights on the threat intelligence landscape from experts, practitioners and defenders at Microsoft. The Microsoft Digital Defense Report is informed by over 8 trillion daily security signals and observations from their security and threat intelligence teams, to present you with telemetry and insights about the current state of cybersecurity.
Learn more about how threat actors are rapidly increasing in sophistication, using advanced techniques that make it even more challenging to identify and which pose risks to all targets.
Key insights include:
- In 2019 we blocked over 13 billion malicious and suspicious mails, out of which more than 1 billion were URLs set up for the explicit purpose of launching a phishing credential attack.
- Ransomware is the most common reason behind our incident response engagements from October 2019 through July 2020.
- The most common attack techniques used by nation-state actors in the past year are reconnaissance, credential harvesting, malware, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) exploits.
- IoT threats are constantly expanding and evolving. The first half of 2020 saw an approximate 35% increase in total attack volume compared to the second half of 2019.