If we look at the major incidents of the first half of 2026, the pattern repeats itself over and over again.

Targeted phishing, credential theft, attacks on Microsoft 365 and cloud services, ransomware, and wiper attacks against critical systems—different industries, but the same logic: attackers gain access through a user or the cloud, and then move very quickly within the infrastructure.

The good news is that these scenarios have long been documented.

The bad news is that many companies still view them as “something that happens to others” until a real incident occurs.

In this article, we’ll examine what typical attacks look like in practice and how they can be stopped by combining CrowdStrike Falcon modules (EDR/NGAV, Identity, Cloud Security, AIDR) with the network and cybersecurity solutions implemented by ALESTA.

Regardless of the industry—banking, retail, manufacturing, or logistics—most attacks follow a single sequence:

• Initial access (phishing, credential theft, a compromised VPN, a compromised endpoint, or a compromised cloud account).
• Establishing a foothold in the environment (creating new accounts, backdoors, persistence mechanisms).
• Movement within the infrastructure (lateral movement, reconnaissance, searching for critical systems).
• The goal of the attack is encryption (ransomware), destruction (wiper), data leakage, sabotage, or monetization.

If security focuses on only one of these steps—for example, just antivirus software on a workstation—the company ends up with a “leaky umbrella” that cannot withstand modern tactics.

That is precisely why Falcon’s platform-based approach, combined with ALESTA’s integration expertise, is so important: protection must be in place at every stage, not just “at the entry point.”

For details on five typical scenarios that exist in the Ukrainian context and how to address them, see the article at the link.