{"id":37388,"date":"2020-09-29T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/?p=91964"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:51","slug":"microsoft-digital-defense-report-2020-cyber-threat-sophistication-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-digital-defense-report-2020-cyber-threat-sophistication-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2020: Cyber Threat Sophistication on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, Microsoft is releasing a new annual report, called the Digital Defense Report<\/a>, covering cybersecurity trends from the past year. This report<\/strong> makes it clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that make them harder to spot and that threaten even the savviest targets.<\/strong> For example, nation-state actors are engaging in new reconnaissance techniques that increase their chances of compromising high-value targets, criminal groups targeting businesses have moved their infrastructure to the cloud to hide among legitimate services, and attackers have developed new ways to scour the internet for systems vulnerable to ransomware.<\/p>\n

In addition to attacks becoming more sophisticated, threat actors are showing clear preferences for certain techniques, with notable shifts towards credential harvesting and ransomware, as well as an increasing focus on Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Among the most significant statistics on these trends:<\/p>\n