ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2024 published

Reporting over the course of 2023 and 2024, the ETL report highlights findings on the cybersecurity threat landscape during a yearlong geopolitical escalation. Throughout the latter part of 2023 and the initial half of 2024, there was a notable escalation in cybersecurity attacks, setting new benchmarks in both the variety and number of incidents, as well as their consequences.  

The ongoing regional conflicts still remain a significant factor shaping the cybersecurity landscape. The phenomenon of hacktivism has seen steady expansion, with major events taking place (e.g. European Elections) providing the motivation for increased hacktivist activity.

Seven (7) prime cybersecurity threats were identified, with threats against availability topping the chart and followed by ransomware and threats against data, and the report provides a relevant deep dive on each one of them by analysing several thousand publicly reported cybersecurity incidents and events:

• Ransomware
• Malware
• Social Engineering
• Threats against data
• Threats against availability: Denial of Service
• Information manipulation and interference
• Supply chain attacks

The report is complemented by a detailed analysis of the vulnerability landscape during 2023 and 2024, as well as a detailed analysis of four distinct threat actors’ categories, namely:

• State-nexus actors;
• Cybercrime actors and hacker-for-hire actors;
• Private Sector Offensive actors (PSOA);
• Hacktivists.

With 2024 being the year that NIS2 Directive comes into force, an analysis of the cybersecurity threat landscape across different sectors is provided. Notably, it observed a large number of events targeting organisations in the public administration (19%), transport (11%) and finance (9%) sectors.

The key findings and judgments in this report are based on multiple and publicly available resources. The report is mainly targeted at strategic decision-makers and policy-makers, while also being of interest to the technical cybersecurity community.

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