The Top Cyber Attack Vectors Organizations Face

This Arctic Wolf threat report outlines the top attack vectors observed in 2024–2025—external remote access (compromised credentials and RMM/RDP/VPN abuse), external exploitation of known (patchable) vulnerabilities, and human risk (phishing/BEC/insider error)—provides statistics on their prevalence in ransomware, intrusion, and BEC cases, and recommends mitigations such as phishing-resistant MFA, risk-based vulnerability management, application hardening, email security, and security awareness training.