A new Global Threat Report from Darktrace highlights a 20 percent year‑on‑year increase in publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, even as attackers increasingly bypass these weaknesses in favor of credential abuse and identity‑led intrusions. Identity‑driven compromise has now become the dominant path into organizations. Darktrace’s findings show that, across the Americas, nearly 70 percent of incidents in the region began with stolen or misused accounts, underscoring how cloud and SaaS adoption have shifted the frontline of cyber defense from the network to the user. “Traditional perimeter defenses were built for a world where attackers had to break in,” says Nathaniel Jones, VP… [Continue Reading]