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Report reveals adversary breakout time falls to record low with tech companies most targeted in APAC region
CrowdStrike research shows adversaries took just 79 minutes on average to ‘ breakout ’ of their initial beach head into a victim ’ s system – with fastest recorded time being just seven minutes .
New research from CrowdStrike shows cybercriminals are getting faster at breaching victim ’ s systems with the average ‘ breakout time ’ falling globally by six per cent since 2022 – from 84 minutes to 79 minutes .
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The research reveals Chinese cyber adversaries heavily targeted the APAC region over others – targeting 14 sectors compared to only six in the Americas and two in EMEA .
Globally , financial service firms are shown to have suffered an 80 % increase in cyberattacks . Within the APAC region , technology companies were the most targeted , attracting 26 % of all attacks .
Telco ( 12 %), retail ( 11 %), financial services ( 8 %) and manufacturing ( 7 %) making up the rest of the top five .
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