Threats in 2014: Bears and Pandas and Malware – Oh My!

CrowdStrike’s 2014 Global Threat Intelligence Report finds a rise in politically motivated and financially driven attacks during 2014, highlighting activity by nation‑backed APT groups and large-scale criminal malware campaigns including POS breaches and GameOver Zeus; the report also describes attacker TTPs such as two‑factor bypasses, zero‑day exploitation, DDoS, and abuse of third‑party services.