TRENDING expand and businesses can grow overwhelmed with audit and upkeep requirements , highlighting the importance of operating on the assumption of compromise and applying a Zero Trust strategy to help protect their architecture .
Attackers target common grounds among clouds operations through cloud environments , businesses must focus on extending visibility into their hybrid infrastructure . Hybrid cloud environments that are built on interoperability and open standards can help organizations detect blind spots and accelerate and automate security responses .
Additional findings from the 2022 report include :
In 2021 , X-Force observed more attackers shifting their targeting to containers like Docker – by far the most dominant container runtime engine according to RedHat . Attackers recognize that containers are common grounds among organizations so they are doubling down on ways to maximize their ROI with malware that can cross platforms and can be used as a jumping off point to other components of their victims ’ infrastructure .
The 2022 report also sounds caution on threat actors ’ continued investment into unique , previously unobserved , Linux malware , with data provided by Intezer revealing a 146 % increase in Linux ransomware that has new code . As attackers remain steady in their pursuit of ways to scale
• Asia leads attacks – Experiencing over one in four attacks that IBM observed globally in 2021 , Asia saw more cyberattacks than any other region in the past year . Financial services and manufacturing organizations together experienced nearly 60 % of attacks in Asia .
• First time caller , long time phisher – Phishing was the most common cause of cyberattacks in 2021 . In X-Force Red ’ s penetration tests , the click rate in its phishing campaigns tripled when combined with phone calls .
The report features data IBM collected globally in 2021 to deliver insightful information about the global threat landscape and inform security professionals about the threats most relevant to their organizations . p
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