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Cyber Risks · Cisco Talos

Great responsibility, without great power

Summary: Cisco Talos' Year in Review coverage gives five priorities for defenders facing an increasingly automated threat landscape, noting that AI and readily available exploit code have lowered the barrier to entry for threat actors who still rely on predictable patterns. The newsletter also cites a 178 percent spike in device compromise and reports that phishing has returned as the top initial access vector for attackers targeting health care and public administration, with no ransomware deployment observed after early mitigation by Talos IR.

What you should know: Attackers weaponizing vulnerabilities and targeting identity systems at that speed still reuse infrastructure and fail to mimic legitimate user behavior, so the advantage sits with defenders who know where to look - but only if identity infrastructure is treated as a top-tier critical asset and legacy risks in the network are actively hunted.

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