In this report, they we anticipate malicious actors will continue their rapid adoption of AI-based tools to augment and assist their online operations across various phases of the attack lifecycle. We expect to see cyber espionage and cyber crime actors continue to leverage deepfakes for identity theft, fraud, and bypassing know-your-customer (KYC) security requirements. As AI capabilities become more widely available throughout 2025, enterprises will increasingly struggle to defend themselves against these more frequent and effective compromises.

Cisco has a unique vantage point when it comes to cybersecurity. We resolve an average of 715 billion daily DNS requests, we see more threats, more malware, and more attacks than any other security vendor in the world. This report looks at the top threats that exploited DNS for cyberattacks, as well as how DNSlayer security provides better accuracy and detection of malicious activity and compromised systems.

In the M-Trends 2024 report it features data and other security metrics that readers have come to expect, highlights zero-day use by espionage and financially-motivated attackers, and dives deep into evasive actions conducted particularly by Chinese espionage groups. we share our learnings with the greater security community, building on our dedication to providing critical knowledge to those tasked with defending organizations. The information in this report has been sanitized to protect the identities of victims and their data.

Protecting trusted insiders (and the assets and systems they are entrusted with) against foreign influence is the ‘how to’ conversation to be having and solution to be driving for. This report is not just a platform for understanding the insider risk landscape. It is an invitation to uplift collaboration and best-practice information sharing with trusted allies to fortify the protective security resilience of our most missions critical agencies and entities.

This report presents a combined look at what Google knows about zero-day exploitation, bringing together analysis from TAG and Mandiant holistically for the first time. The goal of this report is not to detail each individual exploit or exploitation incident, but look for trends, gaps, lessons learned, and successes across the year as a whole. As always, research in this space is dynamic and the numbers may adjust due to the ongoing discovery of past incidents through digital forensic investigations.

With this report, we want to promote open sharing on cyber threats and incidents and give the industry a public and relevant cyber threat picture anchored on a solid, well-documented basis. The report and knowledge base are the product of a collaborative community effort with our members and the Nordic TIBER Cyber Teams (TCTs) at the centre, with contributions from Nordic government entities.

Our annual Threat Intelligence Report is aimed at anyone interested in cybersecurity, from the technical specialist to the senior CISO. The main focus, however, is to guide decision-makers responsible for developing strategic plans for their organization’s cybersecurity to ensure that resources are well invested. Our report last year focused on technical challenges; this year’s report will focus on real-world changes and how they can impact your organization’s cybersecurity.

In releasing our annual M-Trends report, we aim to provide some of that same critical intelligence to the greater security community. M-Trends 2023 continues our tradition of offering details on the evolving cyber landscape, mitigation recommendations, and a wide variety of security incident-related metrics.

Throughout 2022, the cyber threat landscape reflected real world events and geopolitical tensions, with much of the year impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Log4Shell ushered in a chaotic start to 2022 and highlighted the positive impact of industry collaboration, as well as the criticality of patching and understanding the footprint of widely used software in environments.

Threats evolve, attackers constantly change their tactics, techniques and procedures, and defenders must adapt and stay relentless if they want to keep ip. This forecast aims to help they cyber security industry frame its fight against cyber adversaries in 2023.

This report underscores the challenge facing corporate, government and not-for-profit debt issuers: rising cybersecurity incidents, higher costs to combat them, and an imbalance in the executive and risk management experience needed to manage them properly. In an ever-more-connected world, the risk of systemic attacks resulting in damaging financial and repetitional consequences keeps increasing.

This report is to share notable trends and investigations to help inform our community’s understanding of the evolving security threats we see. During some quarters, our reporting may focus more on a particular adversarial trend or tactics we see emerge across different threat actors. During other quarters, we may dive into an especially complex investigation or walk through a novel policy application and relate threat disruptions.

This annual report offers important lessons and recommendations for security teams operating in today’s environment, where visibility and speed are more critical than ever.

This report is Meta’s quarterly adversarial threat report that provides a broad view into the risks we see worldwide and across multiple policy violations.

Bitdefender researchers recently investigated a sophisticated APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting aninternational architectural and video production company, pointing to an advanced threat actor and a South Korean based C&C infrastructure. This report goes in-depth on this attack.

The Threat Intelligence Executive Report by Secureworks is a report designed to analyze security threats and help organizations protect their systems. In this report, they look into Iranian espionage operations in 2020, Customized Magecart attacks, and China based threat groups targeting NGOs and Asian government networks.

In the following report, Naikon describes the tactics, techniques, procedures and infrastructure that have been used by the Naikon APT group over the 5 years since the last report, and offer some insight into how they were able to remain under the radar.

Mandiant’s 2019 edition of their threat intel report. Focusing on significant trends in attack TTPs over the past calendar year.

The recent Chinese New Year ushered in the Year of the Rat, but from the perspective of the many corporations, government agencies and other organizations around the world who continue to be the targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups acting in the interest of the Chinese government, recent years could aptly be described as the Decade of the RATs - Remote Access Trojans, that is.

In this report, BlackBerry researchers reveal what the focus on those groups has overshadowed: several governments with well-established cyber capabilities have long ago adapted to and exploited the mobile threat landscape for a decade or more. In this context, mobile malware is not a new or niche effort, but a longstanding part of a cross-platform strategy integrated with traditional desktop malware in diverse ways across the geopolitical sphere.

FireEye Threat Intelligence assesses with high confidence that APT41 is a prolific cyber threat group that carries out Chinese state-sponsored espionage activity in addition to financially motivated activity potentially outside of state control. Activity traces back to 2012 when individual members of APT41 conducted primarily financially motivated operations focused on the video game industry before expanding into likely statesponsored activity. This is remarkable because explicit financially motivated targeting is unusual among Chinese state-sponsored threat groups, and evidence suggests these two motivations were balanced concurrently from 2014 onward.