CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, today released its 9th annual Global Threat Report, highlighting key trends and cyber threats facing Australia, and revealing the sectors most under threat by Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage operations.

Analysis of security vulnerability trends shows an 87% increase in first-week exploitation since 2020

Manufacturing Most Extorted Industry; Email Thread Hijacking Attempts Spike; Time to Ransom Moves from Months to Days.

84% of codebases contained at least one known open source vulnerability, an almost 4% increase from last year’s findings.

The year 2022 has been dubbed the "year of the cyber plague" due to the occurrence of two of the worst breaches in Australian history happening within weeks of each other, with Optus and Medibank falling victim. These attacks are a testament to the severity of the havoc that cyber attacks can cause, which has been documented over the last 15 years by ...