Cloud-based cyber-attacks saw a marked increase in 2024, with threat actors adopting new tactics to exploit cloud resources at an unprecedented scale, according to Sysdig Threat Research Team’s (TRT) latest report. Beyond LLMjacking, which was observed by the firm to target large language models (LLMs), attackers in 2024 weaponized open-source tools and escalated their use of automation, causing financial damage and increasing the attack surface for cloud-hosted enterprises.

Source: Infosecurity Magazine – Information Security & IT Security