Executive Summary
The total number of attacks increased by 87%, emphasizing the growing threat that cyber attacks now pose to organizations. There was a 356% growth in advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022, in addition to a 83% growth of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.
While email and the browser remain the leading attack vectors, 2022 saw a 161% surge in attacks on all other channels, such as cloud storage and collaboration apps. Advanced attacks, which are complex, sophisticated, and difficult to detect and mitigate, made up 2% of all threats.
The global cyber threat landscape is rapidly evolving and expanding as attackers adopt more sophisticated techniques in order to breach organizations. The need for effective cybersecurity
measures to protect an organization’s most valuable digital assets has never been greater. Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear that concentrating resources on one attack vector is not enough to provide sufficient protection. While email and the browser still comprise the top vectors of all cyber attacks, by analyzing the attack trends of 2022, Perception Point has identified a dramatic surge in other channel-based attacks. This has led to the understanding that as organizations increase reliance on web-based tools and SaaS applications in the workplace, attackers are never far behind, ready to enhance their levels of sophistication to target emerging channels including cloud storage (AWS S3, OneDrive, Google Drive), collaboration apps (Sharepoint, Teams, Slack), Salesforce, and Zendesk.
In this report, Perception Point analyzes the most pervasive attacks its advanced threat detection platform detected in 2022, noting a particular increase in account takeover attacks in the latter half of the year as well as an ongoing growth in phishing attacks. This report examines cyber threats through distinct lenses based on the intelligence gathered by Perception Point’s proprietary detection engines and its managed incident response service.
Key Takeaways:
The total number of attacks increased by 87%, emphasizing the growing threat that cyber
attacks now pose to organizations.
There was a 356% growth in advanced phishing attacks attempted by threat actors in 2022,
in addition to a 83% growth of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.
While email and the browser remain the leading attack vectors, 2022 saw a 161% surge in
attacks on all other channels, such as cloud storage and collaboration apps.
Advanced attacks, which are complex, sophisticated, and difficult to detect and mitigate,
made up 2% of all threats.
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