Cyberthreats Surge as Attackers Target Compromised Identity

CrowdStrike's Adam Meyers on Cybercriminals Moving From Endpoints to Softer Targets Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • May 2, 2025

Cyber activities have grown in frequency and severity, driven by financially motivated criminals, nation-state actors and hacktivists. With EDR making it difficult for cybercriminal to carry out attacks, they are now shifting focus to exploit vulnerabilities in softer targets, including compromised identities and unmanaged devices, to move laterally across organizations, said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at CrowdStrike.

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"Adversaries want to work less, easier and faster, and so we've seen them going after the softer targets. Identity has been a massive issue for organizations," Meyers said. "With the cloud, we've seen a 25% increase in cloud activity in 2024 - 35% of those had legitimate credentials to log into the cloud. We're also ...