Threat actors move from email to browsers

New research from the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) shows a shift towards browser-based threats last year as more traditional email malware declines. Moving onto 2025 the report predicts an increase in politically motivated cyberattacks, with adversaries disrupting the physical infrastructure of the Internet to disrupt internet access. It also expects we’ll see continued growth in ransomware attacks against all industries, abuse of certificate authority, and further increase in browser-based threats to deploy malware. The use of valid credentials as an initial access route dominated in 2024. Compromised credentials are then used to access network resources and further the attacker's… [Continue Reading]