The Accelerating Adversary: Inside the 2025 Threat Landscape

Join us for a deep dive into the Global Threat Landscape Report 2025 by FortiGuard Labs. This episode explores the dramatic escalation in cyberattacks, revealing how adversaries are moving faster than ever, leveraging automation, commoditized tools, and AI to gain advantage. We'll shed light on the surge in automated reconnaissance, the evolving darknet ecosystem where credentials and corporate access are traded, and how AI is supercharging cybercrime through tools like FraudGPT and deepfakes. Discover the trends in exploitation volumes targeting exposed systems and IoT devices, the stealthy nature of post-exploitation tactics including lateral movement and C2, and the persistent challenges in securing cloud environments plagued by misconfigurations and identity compromise. We'll also break down the changing adversary landscape, from fragmented ransomware groups and the rise of RaaS on the darknet to the dangerous convergence of hacktivism and ransomware and the ongoing operations of state-sponsored actors. Finally, we'll discuss the critical need for organizations to shift from reactive defense to proactive Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to counter this accelerating threat.