This year the report highlighted the increasingly complex threat landscape and the corresponding escalating pressure on defenders to enhance visibility into and resilience of OT/ICS networks Organizations with strong incident response capabilities, defensible architectures, secure remote access protocols, and robust network monitoring are far better positioned to reduce the risk of a successful attack on the enterprise OT even in this increasingly complex environment.

The Nozomi Networks Labs team delivers this semi-annual report to provide insights into how the world’s largest industrial organizations and critical infrastructure operators can protect themselves from these advanced threats. Our threat intelligence, enriched by indicators of compromise, threat actor profiles and vulnerability data from Mandiant, empowers customers to proactively defend their systems.

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.

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.

This year highlighted the increasingly complex threat landscape and the corresponding escalating pressure on defenders to enhance visibility into and resilience of OT/ICS networks. This focus on simplicity highlights a critical point for defenders: effective implementation of the SANS ICS 5 Critical Controls remains the best defense against OT targeting adversaries.

The GreyNoise 2025 Mass Internet Exploitation Report provides security leaders, SOC analysts, vulnerability managers, and threat intelligence teams with actionable insights. Attackers are industrializing reconnaissance and exploitation. Security teams must adapt. This report provides the intelligence needed to prioritize, respond, and defend against the next wave of mass exploitation.

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.

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 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.

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.

In this report, we look back at the 900 million attacks we analyzed in the threat landscape of 2024. Additionally, we offer organizations tactical insights and strategic recommendations for improving defenses this year. From the financial impact of attacks to geopolitical tensions that lead to cyber warfare, cybersecurity is top of mind for enterprise and government organizations in 2025.

Nuspire has witnessed shifting trends in the ransomware, dark web and exploit sections of our report. Our research revealed that ransomware extortion publications increased by 8%, Lumma Stealer fiercely reclaimed its top spot as the leading infostealer, and threat actors are focusing heavily on exploiting VPN technology.

This year, we also delve deeper into the threats facing critical infrastructure, particularly within Operational Technology and mobile networks. With increased connectivity and the adoption of IoT and 5G, these systems offer an expanded attack surface that calls for comprehensive, cross-functional defenses. Our goal is not only to adopt the latest technologies but to do so thoughtfully, balancing progress with caution to secure a safer digital world.

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.

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 this report, Marsh McLennan’s team demonstrated a statistically significant correlation between all of our dark web intelligence sources - including (but not limited to) dark web market listings, hacking forum chatter, and dark web traffic to and from the corporate network - and an increased likelihood of suffering a cybersecurity incident. Put simply: the presence of any dark web findings related to an organization - without exception - was associated with a higher likelihood of a breach.

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.

This report seized the opportunity to do something different; it now focuses on highlighting what’s next for the hacking community. From neurodiversity in the hacking community to the rise of hacking influencer platforms, we’ve examined a broad spectrum of important topics. Now, most security professionals not only understand the difference between threat actors and hackers, but they actually have personal experience with ethical hacking.