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Understand threat actors' targets and attack behaviors with the 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report — designed to provide your cybersecurity team with crucial insights for the upcoming year.

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Frequently asked questions
The Elastic Global Threat Report is a report from Elastic Security Labs that explores a full year of telemetry. The Global Threat Report provides a comprehensive look at several threat topics, including malware, cloud, endpoint, and adversarial campaigns. It also provides cybersecurity forecasts for the upcoming year.
The telemetry analyzed for the Global Threat Report is Elastic's private data as well as public and volunteer sets. All data has been responsibly sanitized to protect the identities of everyone involved.
The 2024 Elastic Global Threat Report has analyzed data from June 2023 to July 2024, and was published on October 1, 2024.
All previous iterations of the Global Threat Report can be found on the Report section of Elastic Security Labs site.
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