A recent assessment of 21 major U.S. energy companies has revealed a significant cybersecurity gap, with nearly 59,000 services exposed to the internet—many of which are vulnerable and potentially invisible to traditional security tools.

Flashpoint’s Global Threat Intelligence Index: 2025 Midyear Edition, analyzing over 3.6 petabytes of data, reports an 800% surge in credential theft, with 1.8 billion credentials stolen from 5.8 million infected devices.

Ransomware groups are increasingly weaponizing Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools—originally intended for legitimate IT operations—to conduct sophisticated cyber intrusions.

ESET identified several prominent AsyncRAT forks actively used in cyberattacks, including DcRat, VenomRAT, and SilverRAT. DcRat offers an expanded feature set, while VenomRAT includes even more advanced capabilities.

Cybersecurity experts at Cofense reported a 19x increase in malicious campaigns being launched from .es domains, making it the third most common, behind only .com and .ru.

The first half of 2025 has seen a dramatic surge in cryptocurrency-related cybercrime, with total losses from scams, hacks, and exploits reaching approximately $2.47 billion. This figure already surpasses the total losses recorded in all of 2024.

More than a third (36%) of people have had at least one online account compromised due to weak or stolen passwords in the past year, according to new research by the FIDO Alliance.

Cloudflare has reported a record-breaking surge in DDoS attacks, mitigating 21.3 million attacks in 2024—a 358% year-over-year (YoY) increase—and already handling 20.5 million attacks in Q1 2025 alone.

The findings are revealed in a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Inflection Point: Global Implications of Scam Centres, Underground Banking and Illicit Online Marketplaces in Southeast Asia.

In Q1 2025, Microsoft maintained its position as the most targeted brand, accounting for 36% of all phishing attempts. Google surged to second place with 12%, while Apple remained in the top 3 with 8%.