Hackers are exploiting the advantages of new tech and the availability of credentials, commercial tools, and other resources to launch advanced attacks faster, causing concerns among cybersecurity professionals.
Global Threat Landscape Report 2025
The 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report by FortiGuard Labs highlights a “dramatic escalation in scale and advancement of cyberattacks” due to the fast adoption of the present hostile tech and commercial malware and attacker toolkits.
According to the report, the data suggests cybercriminals are advancing faster than ever, “automating reconnaissance, compressing the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, and scaling their operations through the industrialization of cybercrime.”
According to the researchers, hackers are exploiting all types of threat resources in a “systematic way” to disrupt traditional advantages enjoyed by defenders. This has put organizations on alert as they are implementing new defense measures and leveling up to mitigate these changing threats.
Game changer AI
AI has become a key tool for hackers in launching phishing attacks which are highly effective and work as initial access vectors for more harmful attacks like
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