{"id":218256,"date":"2026-02-27T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/news-brief-attackers-gain-speed-in-cybersecurity-race\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:55:10","slug":"news-brief-attackers-gain-speed-in-cybersecurity-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/news-brief-attackers-gain-speed-in-cybersecurity-race\/","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Attackers gain speed in cybersecurity race"},"content":{"rendered":"

News brief: Attackers gain speed in cybersecurity race<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/searchsecurity\/news\/366639638\/News-brief-Attackers-gain-speed-in-cybersecurity-race<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-27 18:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.techtarget.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Just 15 years ago, the median dwell time of a cyberattack — the duration an attacker remains within their victim’s system, spanning from the initial signs of compromise to the moment of detection — was 416 days, according to Mandiant. That metric has steadily decreased over the past decade and a half, falling to 11 days in 2024.<\/p>\n

Reasons for dwell time decreases are twofold. Enterprise security monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities have become stronger and more effective, while certain attacks — such as ransomware, in which malicious actors attempt to extort victims rapidly — are detected much more quickly. Yet these points are countered by overworked or under-skilled security teams and immature incident response plans, as well as by sophisticated advanced persistent threats that use stealth and living-off-the-land techniques to evade detection for long periods.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity is a tale as old as time: As enterprise defenses get stronger, adversaries up the ante on attacks. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n

As this week’s featured news highlights, attackers continue to improve their speed. Organizations must, in turn, step up their game to monitor, detect and eradicate threats faster than ever before.<\/p>\n

AI revolutionizes cyberattack speed and sophistication<\/h2>\n

AI is transforming the cyberattack landscape, enabling attackers to accelerate lateral movement, data exfiltration and phishing campaigns, according to a ReliaQuest report. In 2025, lateral movement times dropped 29% to an average of 34 minutes, while data exfiltration times fell to just six minutes — a decrease from four hours in 2024.<\/p>\n

ReliaQuest researchers pointed to AI-powered tools such as BoaLoader malware, which they said “reflects the first major convergence of AI-assisted development, social engineering and traditional cybercrime.”<\/p>\n

Reports from IBM and Resilience had similar findings, highlighting AI’s role in compressing decision cycles and scaling attacks, while a Sophos report cautioned that…<\/p>\n

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