Mandiant's 2024 threat report - five takeaways

Latest M-Trends report details how ransomware, zero-day attacks and other threats evolved last year.

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Mandiant's 2024 threat report - five takeaways
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Mandiant's 2024 threat report - five takeaways

The discovery of compromised systems continues to accelerate thanks both to improved detection tools and increased ransomware activity, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends threat report for 2024 that was released on Tuesday.

The analysis is the 15th annual M-Trends report from Google Cloud-owned Mandiant. The report is based upon data produced by Mandiant investigations throughout 2023. Ransomware "tends to be a lot...

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