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CrowdStrike’s Annual Threat Hunting Report Reveals One Potential Intrusion Is Identified Every Seven Minutes
Findings from Falcon Overwatch threat hunters showed faster breakout times by eCrime adversaries and one million malicious events were prevented by the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFindings from Falcon Overwatch threat hunters showed faster breakout times by eCrime adversaries and one million malicious events were prevented by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform\n\n AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, today announced the release of the fourth annual CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch threat hunting report: Nowhere to Hide: 2022 Falcon OverWatch Threat Hunting Report. The global report reveals a record 50% year-over-year (YoY) increase of hands-on intrusion attempts, and distinct changes in attack trends and adversary tradecraft. Most notably, Falcon OverWatch threat hunters identified more than 77,000 potential intrusions, or approximately one potential intrusion every seven minutes. These are instances where proactive, human-led threat hunting uncovered adversaries actively carrying out malicious techniques at various stages of the attack chain, despite attackers’ best efforts to covertly evade autonomous detection methods.\n\nFalcon OverWatch calculated that the breakout time (i.e. the time, on average, it takes an adversary to move laterally from initial compromise to other hosts within the victim environment) for eCrime adversaries has fallen to one hour and 24 minutes – compared to one hour and 38 minutes as reported by Falcon OverWatch in the 2022 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report. Moreover, Falcon OverWatch found that in approximately one-third (30%) of those eCrime intrusions, the adversary was able to move laterally in under 30 minutes. These findings underline the speed and scale at which threat actors evolve their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), and are capable of bypassing even the most sophisticated technology-based defense systems to successfully achieve their goals.\n\n“Over the past 12 months, the world has faced new challenges spurred by economic pressures and geopolitical tensions, backdropping a threat landscape that is as complicated as ever,” said Param Singh, vice president, Falcon OverWatch at CrowdStrike. “To thwart brazen threat actors, security teams must implement solutions that proactively search for hidden and advanced attacks every hour of every day. The combination of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with the telemetry, tooling, threat intelligence and human ing...