Red Canary Detects Spike in Cloud Account Compromises and Email Forwarding Rule Abuse
DENVER, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Canary today unveiled its sixth annual Threat Detection Report, examining the trends, threats, and adversary techniques that organizations ought to prioritize in the coming months and years. The report tracks MITRE ATT&CK® techniques that adversaries abuse most frequently throughout the year, and two new and notable entries soared to the top 10 in 2023: Email Forwarding Rule and Cloud Accounts.
- The report tracks MITRE ATT&CK® techniques that adversaries abuse most frequently throughout the year, and two new and notable entries soared to the top 10 in 2023: Email Forwarding Rule and Cloud Accounts.
- Uptick in macOS threats–in 2023 Red Canary detected more stealer activity in macOS environments than ever before, along with instances of reflective code loading and AppleScript abuse .
- The rise of cloud account compromises from 46 to number 4 is unprecedented in our dataset–and it's a similar story with email forwarding rules," said Keith McCammon, Chief Security Officer, Red Canary.
- Education: Email forwarding and hiding rules were more common, likely due to a heavy reliance on email.