Based on the research and real-world experiences of Sophos X-Ops – a new cross-operational unit that links Sophos' threat, incident response and AI cybersecurity experts, the report covers:
- The lasting cyber impact of the war in Ukraine
- The maturity of the “as-a-service” industry and how it has put advanced threat tactics into the hands of nearly any criminal
- How ransomware operators have evolved their activities and mechanisms, both to evade detection and to incorporate novel techniques
- A deep dive into the abuse of legitimate security tools by criminals to execute attacks
- An analysis of the threats facing Linux, Mac, and mobile systems
