The security vendor’s 2021 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report is compiled from its threat intelligence, managed threat hunting and cloud graph database technology which processes four trillion global events per week. It revealed that the vast majority (79%) of “hands-on” attacks spotted last year were financially motivated cybercrime, with supply chain attacks, data extortion and ransomware all featuring strongly. It pointed to 18 “big game” ransomware groups that infected 104 healthcare organizations in 2020. However, of particular concern was how threat actors appear to be accelerating attacks once they’ve made an initial intrusion into a victim’s network. The average “breakout” time dropped from around nine hours in 2019 to just four hours and 28 minutes.