Cybersecurity Dive April 23, 2024
Google Cloud’s Mandiant saw significant improvements in how organizations track down threats, yet hackers are still abusing common threat vectors.
Dive Brief:
- Global median dwell times — measured as the time that hackers remain undetected inside a targeted environment — have fallen to their lowest levels in more than a decade, according to the annual M-Trends report from Google Cloud’s Mandiant, released Tuesday.
- Organizations were able to detect intrusions within a median of 10 days in 2023, compared with 16 days in 2022. Notably the largest improvements came in the Asia-Pacific region, where median dwell times fell to nine days in 2023, compared with 33 in 2022.
- Zero-day vulnerabilities are a hot target for espionage actors as...