For nearly a decade, Cisco has published comprehensive cybersecurity reports that are designed to keep security teams and the businesses they support apprised of cyber threats and vulnerabilities and informed about steps they can take to improve security and cyber-resiliency.

In these reports, we strive to alert defenders to the increasing sophistication of threats and the techniques that adversaries use to compromise users, steal information, and create disruption.

With this latest report, however, we find we must raise our warning flag even higher. Our security experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the accelerating pace of change in the global cyber threat landscape.