Cloud Chaos: The Sky’s the Limit for Cyber Attacks in 2024!
Cloud-hosted infrastructure is under attack, with nearly five times as many daily cloud-based alerts seen by the end of 2024. These aren’t just pesky notifications—high severity alerts are up, showing attackers are honing in on critical resources. The solution? Cloud Detection and Response tools that tackle threats in real-time.
Hot Take:
Holy cloud cows! It looks like hackers have found their new playground in our beloved cloud infrastructure. With security alerts skyrocketing, it seems like every cloud has a dark lining. Time to batten down the hatches and lock up those IAM credentials, folks, because hackers are treating them like VIP passes to a sold-out concert!
Key Points:
- Cloud security alerts have increased fivefold by the end of 2024, with high-severity alerts seeing the most significant spike.
- Attackers are targeting critical cloud resources like IAM tokens, storage, virtual machines, containers, and serverless functions.
- IAM-based alerts have notably risen, including a 116% increase in “impossible travel” events and a 305% jump in suspicious cloud storage downloads.
- Runtime monitoring tools like Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) are essential for detecting and preventing malicious cloud activities.
- Organizations must adopt a robust cloud security posture and runtime monitoring to fend off increasingly sophisticated cloud threats.
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