An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-states increasingly relied on predictable tactics to evade detection by exploiting trusted systems. The average breakout time — how long it took...

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The entities and people were targeted “for their acquisition and distribution of cyber tools harmful to U.S. national security,” the Treasury Department said in a statement.