Netskope Security Cloud platform users were most commonly targeted by criminal adversaries in the first nine months of 2023, according to the company's Cloud and Threat Report.Here are the takeaways from the report include:The top criminal adversary groups were based in Russia and Ukraine. The top geopolitical threat groups were based in China. Russia-based Wizard Spider was the most prominent criminal adversary group to target Netskope customers; this group is known for creating the TrickBot malware. In the financial services and healthcare verticals, nearly half of the activity observed came from geopolitical threat groups. Australia and North America had the highest percentage of attacks from adversary activity attributable to criminal groups, while other parts of the world led in geopolitically motivated attacks. Implement anti-phishing defenses to ensure that end-users are protected against spear-phishing links, regardless of where they originate. Ensure that executables, archives and other high-risk file types are inspected using static and dynamic analyses before they are downloaded. Detect and prevent adversary command-and-control (C2) traffic over web protocols using a secure web gateway and intrusion prevention system to identify communications to known C2 infrastructure and common C2 patterns. MSSPs can share these tips with their customers. They can also provide security services to help their customers keep pace with current and emerging threats.