VP of Counter Adversary Operations, CrowdStrike CTO of Americas, CrowdStrike AI-Accelerated Threat Landscape: Year of the Evasive Adversary Virtual Threat Briefing CrowdStrike's experts reveal how threat actors are evading traditional defenses by weaponizing AI, exploiting cross-domain blind spots, and targeting unmanaged edge devices. Of vulnerabilities exploited by China-nexus adversaries targeted edge devices Increase in cloud-conscious intrusions by state-nexus threat actors Sr. The CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team performs research that identifies new adversaries, monitors their activities, and captures emerging cyber threat developments. Fastest eCrime breakout time on record Increase in average breakout speed year over year Edge device and cross-domain attacks escalate By exploiting visibility gaps, adversaries move fluidly across identity, cloud, and virtual environments while avoiding heavily monitored endpoints to evade detection.