Fortinet warns of escalating cloud threats as attacks accelerate

A recent cybersecurity report has highlighted the growing scale of threats targeting cloud environments worldwide, recording 2.3 billion brute-force attempts, which rely on automated password guessing, alongside 1.7 billion exploitation attempts and 150 million reconnaissance events targeting cloud environments. The report found that attackers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to identify and exploit vulnerabilities has accelerated attacks and expanded their reach, leaving secu