Cybersecurity Dive July 17, 2024
Credential mismanagement was the top initial access vector for cloud environment attacks during the first half of 2024, a Google Cloud report found.
Dive Brief:
- Weak credentials and misconfigurations across cloud systems were at the root of 3 in 4 network intrusions during the first half of 2024, Google Cloud said Wednesday in its latest Threat Horizons Report.
- Google Cloud said systems with weak or no credentials were the top initial access vector, accounting for 47% of cloud environment attacks during the first six months of the year. That’s a slight decrease from the second half of 2023 when weak or no credentials were at the root of 51% of attacks, according to Google Cloud.
- Misconfigurations were the initial...
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