Companies are increasingly aware of the importance of creating detection and hunting capacities that help to keep their business’s future from being put at risk. The popularity of threat-hunting services is a consequence of detecting ever more persistent attacks, which also last longer and longer. On top of this, cybercriminals also have ever more tactics to avoid traditional defense measures.
Adversaries are doubling down on identity-based attacks. According to Nowhere to Hide: CrowdStrike 2023 Threat Hunting Report, we’ve seen an alarming 583% year-over-year increase in Kerberoasting attacks — a form of identity-based threat — and a 147% increase in access broker advertisements on the dark web. Adversaries are evolving their tradecraft, building custom tooling and leveraging more than usernames and passwords to breach your environments.