This year we find that cyber debt continues to build with GenAI, rise of machine identities, and increasing third- and fourth-party risks. This growth in vulnerable identities, boosted by the ongoing AI transformation and pervasive cloud computing, is a here-and-now threat ready to be exploited by bad actors with the AI-powered ability to execute at scale. Perhaps the only thing more disturbing than the emergence of deepfake videos is our collective overconfidence that we won’t be fooled by them.

Threat actors are augmenting traditional ransomware and extortion with attacks designed to intentionally disrupt operations. Amid these trends, we’re also seeing a multi-pronged approach in attacks, as threat actors target multiple areas of the attack surface. In fact, 70% of the incidents Unit 42 responded to happened on three or more fronts, underscoring the need to protect endpoints, networks, cloud environments and the human factor in tandem. These incidents involved large organizations grappling with extortion, network intrusions, data theft, advanced persistent threats and more.

The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report is the industry’s preeminent source on adversary intelligence, examining the emerging adversary trends of the past year. The purpose of this report is to arm you, the world’s security professionals and dedicated cyber defenders, with the knowledge you need to keep a step ahead of these threat actors — and to never, ever underestimate them.

The IR case data is augmented with telemetry from the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform and research from our threat intelligence team, digital forensics experts, incident responders, and professional ransomware negotiators. The vast majority of these IR engagements were initiated as part of cyber insurance policies, through our partnerships with insurance providers and privacy law practitioners. While cyber insurance is a valuable risk transfer option for any organization, it’s important to recognize that certain industries are more likely to have coverage than others, and that our sample cases will reflect this distribution.

The threat landscape is dynamic and reactive — a new technique empowers a previously unknown threat group, vendors swarm to mitigate that threat and create new technologies in the process, operators on both sides seek out new techniques or tools, and so it goes. Elastic Security provides mechanisms to detect and mitigate malware on all major desktop operating systems (OS). For these purposes, malware is any software developed to facilitate adversary actions, disrupt legitimate activities, or otherwise cause harm to a computer or network.

The findings provide insights into the current state of security for web-based applications and systems, and the potential impact of security vulnerabilities on business operations in high-risk sectors. The report examines how DAST offers a crucial complement to other security testing methods, such as static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), and provides a unique perspective on application security by mimicking real-world attack scenarios.

This report gives a detailed analysis of key adversarial behaviors, techniques, and trends we saw in 2024, highlighting the escalating risks that non-enterprise businesses and managed service providers (MSPs) need to be aware of This analysis will empower organizations of all sizes to strengthen their defenses against modern cyber threats by giving them actionable insights into a constantly evolving threat landscape.

The Crypto Maturity Journey outlines considerations for cryptocurrency product rollout, enabling FIs to evaluate market opportunities while simultaneously addressing regulatory and compliance requirements. Over the last few years, cryptocurrency has become a mainstream asset class, with institutional investments as one factor in boosting adoption around the world. Institutions such as BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale have launched Bitcoin and Ethereum ETPs, providing a more accessible avenue for retail and institutional investors to gain exposure to these digital assets.

The Red Report 2025 focuses on the top ten most frequently observed MITRE ATT&CK techniques, presenting a roadmap for organizations to use to understand and prioritize their defenses. From process injection and credential theft to impairing defenses and data exfiltration over encrypted channels, these techniques represent the core strategies employed by todayʼs attackers to achieve their objectives.

This report highlights the real-world impact of these changes, offering 2025 insights and recommendations from and for CISCOs. With over a decade of analysis, Check Point Research insights come from unparalleled data sources that no other company combines. By incorporating incident response, dark web, and open-source findings, we achieve visibility in over 170 countries to reveal global and regional trends.

Hornet security’s cybersecurity solutions process more than 4 and a half billion emails every month. By analyzing the threats identified in these communications, combined with a detailed knowledge of the wider threat landscape, the Security Lab reveals major security trends, threat actor actions and can make informed projections for the future of Microsoft 365 security threats, enabling businesses to act accordingly. Those findings and data are contained within this report.

In this report, nearly half of organizations anticipate a threefold increase in the total number of identities, with machine identities squarely in the driver’s seat (but largely under-secured and over-privileged). This growth in vulnerable identities, boosted by the ongoing AI transformation and pervasive cloud computing, is a here-and-now threat ready to be exploited by bad actors with the AI-powered ability to execute at scale. In the last 12 months, 93% of organizations suffered two or more identity-related breaches.

Security services remained the top category for M&A activity across consulting and MSSP, followed by sectors including Risk & Compliance and SecOps / IR / Threat Intel. While companies have prioritized email security solutions for decades, analysts expect the email security market to grow significantly in the coming years. Advanced threats relating to phishing and social engineering necessitate strong email security to protect employee and company data from threat actors.

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.

In this report our threat researchers have observed significant growth in the breadth, scope, and complexity of threats that organizations are confronting. While it is difficult to be certain exactly how much of this activity is directly attributable to the generative AI boom, we expected to see security leaders expressing concerns about a rise in AI-powered cyber threats.

In this report, the security domain of the CISO continues to expand. This area is one of the most challenging to protect as the threats that attack these devices, like mobile malware and botnets, are becoming more sophisticated. ThreatLabz found that mobile threats are becoming more targeted and sophisticated—with 29% and 111% growth in mobile banking malware and mobile spyware attacks, respectively—even as the overall volume of mobile attacks has declined.

PwC’s 2025 Global Digital Trust Insights revealed significant gaps companies must bridge before achieving cyber resilience. With the attack surface continuing to expand through advances in AI, connected devices and cloud technologies and the regulatory environment in constant flux, achieving cyber resilience at an enterprise level is critical. By addressing these gaps and making cybersecurity a business priority, executives can bridge to a more secure future.

In our 12th annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, our focus covers a wide swath of attacks from the personal (teens exploitation), corporate (increases in internal fraud), national (using dynamic identification as a fraud defense), and global (bad actors pursuing data centers). Spanning all these predictions is the dramatically accelerated speed and scaling of cyberattacks that are AI-enabled. This year’s predictions come from Experian’s long history of helping companies navigate breaches over the past 22 years.

The 2024 Data Threat Report (DTR) analyzes how core security practices have changed in response to or in anticipation of changing threats. This report also offers perspectives on what organizations can do to leverage data assets to expand opportunities to make their businesses more agile and build trust with their customers. It analyzes global trends in threats to data and the underlying controls, regulations, risks and emerging technologies that need to be addressed.

The 2024 Cybersecurity Threat Report aims to be a crucial resource for CISOs, CIOs, and security leaders seeking to navigate this complex environment. By analyzing billions of threat data points collected across our vast customer base, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the current threat landscape and offer actionable insights for strengthening organizations’ cybersecurity postures.

In today’s crowded and fast-paced technology environment, finance organizations must efficiently and securely manage access to an ever-increasing range of digital services and resources. This puts tremendous pressure on their IT and security teams to keep operations running smoothly and cyber defenses ironclad, even as their exposure to cyberthreats grows. At the core of this challenge is identity security, which ensures authorized individuals gain access to systems and that imposters and threats are shut out.