"Hackers Can Penetrate 93% of Local Networks"

Researchers at Positive Technologies have found that cyberattackers can breach 93% of organizations’ network perimeters and gain access to their resources.  The study showed results from the company’s penetration testing projects in the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. In the 93% of cases where the researchers were able to penetrate local company networks, it only took them an average of two days to do so.  Another worrying finding was that an insider could gain complete control over the infrastructure of the organization in all of the organizations analyzed.  The organizations included in the analysis came from a range of vital sectors, including finance (29%), fuel and energy (18%), government (16%), industrial (16%), and IT (13%).  The most common way of penetrating a corporate network was credential compromise (71% of organizations). This mainly resulted from easily guessable passwords, including account passwords used for system administration.  The researchers noted that most organizations had no network segmentation by business processes, enabling threat actors to develop several attack vectors simultaneously.

Infosecurity reports: "Hackers Can Penetrate 93% of Local Networks"