Top attack vectors: August 2021

This SOC report for August 2021 identifies Business Email Compromise (BEC) as the top attack vector (63% of incidents), a 400% month-over-month increase in exploitation of public-facing web-app vulnerabilities (causing 55% of critical incidents, listing exploited CVEs), and a notable rise in credential-stealing malware (REDLINE) increasingly targeting crypto wallets; the report emphasizes immediate resilience actions — enable MFA, disable legacy protocols, use Azure AD Identity Protection, patch border-facing assets, deploy EDR/WAF, and increase user education.