Report
Part 2. Top Security Threats and Trends of 2025
This report highlights key security threats and trends from Q2 2025, noting attackers are increasingly adaptive, with cyberattacks per organization up 21% year over year and manufacturing remaining the most targeted sector (200 victims, up 44%). It reviews major incidents affecting Microsoft SharePoint (ToolShell zero-day exploitation tied to China-linked groups), Qantas (third-party platform breach exposing data for ~6 million customers), Nova Scotia Power (ransomware and data theft impacting ~280,000 individuals), and Marks & Spencer (Scattered Spider ransomware via social engineering, estimated £300M cost). The report emphasizes ransomware pressure on industrial sectors, a rise in active ransomware groups, growing third-party risk, Gen-AI powered ransomware and data-theft-only extortion
