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Comcast Business Report Finds Global Cybersecurity Community at a Crossroads as Technology Advancements Accelerate
Cybersecurity Threat Report dissects 23.5 billion attempted cybersecurity attacks against Comcast Business customers – phishing and malware dominate threat
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCybersecurity Threat Report dissects 23.5 billion attempted cybersecurity attacks against Comcast Business customers – phishing and malware dominate threat landscape\n\n\n PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nComcast Business today announced the release of its inaugural Comcast Business Cybersecurity Threat Report, presenting essential insights into the global cybersecurity landscape and effective strategies for technology and security leaders to safeguard their organizations against evolving cyber threats.\n\n\n“Technology is accelerating at a breakneck pace – bringing sophisticated new tools to both attackers and defenders. And although attacker tools are evolving, social engineering continues to be the leading tactic used to breach corporate networks,” said Noopur Davis, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security and Product Privacy Officer, Comcast Corporation and Comcast Cable. “CISOs and CIOs have to adjust to the evolving threat landscape to protect their organizations and customers.”\n\n\nThe report leverages data from 23.5 billion cybersecurity attacks, spanning 500 threat types and 900 distinct infrastructure and software vulnerabilities, that Comcast Business helped customers navigate in 2022 and sheds light on the new threat matrix and strategies adversaries employ to access enterprise networks. Key themes from this year’s report include:\n\n\n\nThe majority of breaches now originate with the users of internal and external resources. Cyber-attacks used to begin with an exploit of a vulnerability in public-facing network resources that connect to applications and infrastructure within the network perimeter. Research has shown that today, approximately 67% of all breaches start with someone clicking on a seemingly safe link, which explains why adversaries begin 80-95% of all attacks with a phish.\n\n\n\n\nAdversaries' use of reconnaissance tactics underscores the importance of only accepting network connection requests from trusted sources.\nAttackers do their homework to uncover vulnerabilities, like open ports and misconfigured systems, as evidenced by the 242 million reconnaissance scans of customer networks and assets. The top reconnaissance tools employed by adversaries include vulnerability scanners, botnets and phishing. Once inside a network, adversaries made 2.6 million attempts to modify or create new...