Year in Review: Key vulnerabilities, tools, and shifts in attacker email tactics
Summary: Cisco Talos' 2024 Year in Review examines the most frequently targeted vulnerabilities, particularly those affecting network infrastructure, and details a shift in adversary behavior as threat actors move away from time-sensitive lures in phishing campaigns. The review also highlights the tools most commonly leveraged by attackers last year and offers guidance on detecting their presence in an environment.
Key Takeaway: Talos reports attackers are abandoning time-sensitive phishing lures, which undercuts awareness training built around urgency cues, and it points to network infrastructure vulnerabilities as the most frequently targeted - the same devices that sit at the edge of most environments.
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