"Attackers Evolve Strategies to Outmaneuver Security Teams"

It is expected that attackers will expand their targeting strategy beyond regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. Titaniam predicts that large enterprises will be the primary target of cyberattacks in 2023, surpassing financial institutions, government, healthcare, and education. New vulnerabilities have been introduced into corporate networks by the rapid rate of change, making them an increasingly desirable target for cybercriminals. Large companies are increasingly adopting cloud services, gathering data, pushing code into production faster, and linking apps and systems via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in order to compete in the digital marketplace. Therefore, there are numerous misconfigured services, unprotected databases, poorly tested applications, and unknown and insecure APIs that can be exploited by attackers. Malware (30 percent), ransomware and extortion (27 percent), insider threats (26 percent), and phishing (17 percent) were the top four threats in 2022. According to Titaniam, malware (40 percent), is expected to be the greatest challenge for companies in 2023, followed by insider threats (26 percent), ransomware and related extortion (21 percent), and phishing (16 percent). This article continues to discuss key points and findings from Titaniam's new report on changing attack strategies in 2023, the targeting of high-value data for exfiltration, structured and unstructured data being at risk, and data protection. 

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