Netskope – Cloud and Threat Report

Top Adversary Tactics and Techniques

Report Highlights

  • Spearphishing links and attachments are the top initial access techniques tracked by Netskope Threat Labs this year, with adversaries successfully tricking victims into opening the links and attachments via email, voice, text, social media, and search engines.
  • User execution is the top execution technique, with adversaries having the highest rate of success in tricking their victims into downloading Trojans when they host them using popular cloud apps.
  • For command and control and data exfiltration, adversaries are heavily favoring the use of HTTP and HTTPS to fly under the radar and blend in with benign traffic.
  • The majority of adversary activity on the Netskope Security Cloud platform comes from criminal adversaries, with the most activity attributable to Wizard Spider, a Russian group responsible for creating the TrickBot malware.
  • The financial services and healthcare industry verticals have the highest percentage of activity attributable to geopolitical adversary groups on the Netskope Security Cloud platform.

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