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Understand threat actors' targets and attack behaviors with the 2025 Elastic Global Threat Report — designed to provide your cybersecurity team with crucial insights for the upcoming year.

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The annual Elastic Global Threat Report reveals real-world adversary actions through billions of data points from our unique telemetry, built on Elastic’s Search AI Platform. This year, we discovered:

  • 32
    %

    Of attacks on Windows focus on execution, double the rate from last year

  • 16
    %

    More generic threats were detected, a rise likely driven by AI

  • 60
    %

    Of cloud attacks focus on initial access, persistence, and credential access

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What is the Elastic Global Threat Report?

The Elastic Global Threat Report is a report from Elastic Security Labs that explores a full year of security telemetry. The Global Threat Report provides a comprehensive look at several threat topics, including malware, cloud, endpoint, and adversarial campaigns. 

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