Hunt the Cyber Threat— Before It Hunts You
Summary
Today’s adversaries are scaling their operations, streamlining their tactics, and recycling and evolving their successful techniques to gain speed and stealth. Many of these effective techniques rely less on malware and more on legitimate credentials and native tools to breach and navigate business environments. They are prepared to infiltrate organizations and wait patiently, looking for chances to penetrate further before beginning to exfiltrate information or conduct other nefarious operations. For example, China-nexus adversaries are skilled at exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, which are previously unknown flaws in hardware, software or firmware. CrowdStrike data shows DPRK-nexus adversaries consistently target defense and aerospace entities in various countries, and they often seek to plant malicious insiders who could gain internal access to systems.