2024 In Review

A Pulsedive year-in-review summarizing 2024 cyber events: widespread exploitation of public-facing vulnerabilities (Cleo, PAN-OS GlobalProtect, Ivanti, FortiClient), a malicious XZ utils backdoor affecting Linux distributions, prevalent information-stealers and ransomware campaigns (notably ALPHV/BlackCat, Qilin, Black Basta) causing large-scale data thefts and service disruption, the CrowdStrike BSOD outage and associated phishing abuse, the ClickFix social-engineering tactic, and law enforcement actions such as Operation Cronus disrupting LockBit.