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New CrowdStrike Threat Hunting Report Reveals Prolific Adversary Trends and Tactics
2019 Mid-Year OverWatch report provides insights into massive uptick in eCrime cyber activity; retail comes back as one of the top targeted industries this
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n2019 Mid-Year OverWatch report provides insights into massive uptick in eCrime cyber activity; retail comes back as one of the top targeted industries this year\n\n SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCrowdStrike® Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced the release of the Falcon OverWatchTM 2019 Mid-Year Report: Observations From the Front Lines of Threat Hunting. The report is comprised of threat data from CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch, CrowdStrike’s industry-leading managed threat hunting team. The annual report details several of the sophisticated intrusions the team has encountered and provides insights into notable targeted, state-sponsored and criminal campaigns the team investigated during the first half of 2019. The report also includes information on key trends in adversary activity and offers recommendations for defending against the prevalent tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) attackers are using.\n\n\nAs Gartner states in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform i, “The skills requirement of EDR solutions compounded by the skills gap in most organizations is an impediment to the adoption of EDR in the mainstream market. As a result, product vendors are increasingly offering a fusion of products and services ranging from light incident response and monitoring through full managed detection and response and consultative incident response services.” OverWatch is comprised of an elite team of cross-disciplinary specialists that offer customers full managed detection and response, harnessing the massive power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s cloud-native architecture to gain rapid visibility into the CrowdStrike Security Cloud community. Armed with massive datasets collected and analyzed by CrowdStrike Threat Graph,® combined with contextualized threat intelligence, CrowdStrike’s team of threat hunters continuously tracks, investigates and stops sophisticated threat activity in customer environments.\n\n\nWith CrowdStrike’s industry-leading cloud-scale telemetry of over two trillion endpoint events collected per week and detailed tradecraft on more than 120 adversary groups, OverWatch provides organizations with the comprehensive ability to see and stop the most sophisticated breaches.\n\n\n“Over the first half of 2019, OverWatch has regularly obse...