✅ Report Title: 2025 Threat Landscape Report - From Key Issues in 2025 to Security Strategies for 2026

S2W Threat Intelligence Center (TALON) released the 2025 Threat Landscape Report.

✅ Executive Summary:

This report examines how today’s cyber threats spread across infrastructure, software supply chains, and operational environments, using real-world cases. It helps organizations understand key trends in ransomware, generative AI abuse, and dark web–driven threats, and identify areas of potential exposure in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

📌 Key Cybersecurity Issues in 2025

- Multi-layered Threats to National Infrastructure

- Ransomware Industrialization and the Rise of Triple-Extortion: Company A and Financial Sector Cases

- Generative AI as a Double-Edged Sword: Accelerating Offensive Capabilities

- Hacktivist Groups Pivoting to Monetized Attack Operations

- Exposing Structural Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

📌 Trends and Mitigation Actions by Category

- Threat Actor Profiling : Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, CLOBELSECTEAM, Lazarus, @whoami0981

- Malware : DocSwap malware, GitHub-based malware used by the Kimsuky group, new malware linked to the ScarCruft group

- Vulnerability : Oracle WebLogic vulnerability (CVE-2017-10271), Apache Tomcat vulnerability (CVE-2025-24813)

- Dark Web Forums : Fragmented dark web ecosystem, DarkForums, Deepmix

- Stealer-Traffer ecosystem

- Ransomware : Qilin Ransomware Ecosystem, Tools for Analyzing and Decrypting Windows Locker

📌 Security Strategies and Insights for 2026

- Reinforcing the Fundamentals (Back to the Basics)

  - Automated IT Asset and Vulnerability Management

  - Managing the AI and Software Supply Chain Attack Surface

  - Strengthening Internal Controls and Compliance

- Expanding Visibility and Detection Capabilities (Detection & Response)

  - Adopting Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services

  - Shifting from Reactive Analysis to Autonomous Defense

  - Monitoring Nation-State APTs and Ransomware Cartels

- Embedding Security Culture and Governance (Governance & Trust)

  - Comprehensive Defense Against Impersonation and Trust-Based Attacks

  - Elevating the Role of Security Leadership

  - Building Sustainable Cyber Resilience

📩 The full report is available for download via the attachment below.

🧑‍💻 Author: S2W TALON

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*The full report is available upon request or with a subscription to the S2W platform.