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The Trend 2025 Cyber Risk Report sustains our shift towards proactive security. Protecting enterprises is no longer about stopping breaches but is now about staying ahead, making cybersecurity a business enabler. By looking at the 2025 risk landscape, we recognize exposures and understand attacker behavior to be able to implement countermeasures, transforming security from a challenge to a catalyst for innovation and business growth.

Social engineering is a tactic that, at its core, creates a false narrative to exploit a victim’s credulity, greed, curiosity, or any other very human characteristics. Attackers continue to enhance existing social engineering and use new technologies.

Water Ouroboros (aka Hunters International) is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group that first emerged in October 2023. It is suspected to be a possible spin-off of Hive ransomware, which had its activities disrupted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in January 2023.

This article offers a fresh perspective on AI security, emphasizing that while core AI models are often the focus, the surrounding infrastructure and cloud services are equally critical to securing AI applications, particularly with the rise of AI-as-a-Service.

In this entry, we mapped the capabilities of various AI digital assistants that were showcased at CES 2025 based on an assessment matrix we developed to determine how this emerging technology holds up against potential security threats.

In 2022, Trend Micro conducted extensive research to understand potential cyber threats to the metaverse amid significant global changes and a growing focus on AI technologies. The release of Apple's Apple Vision Pro headset a year later provided an opportunity to evaluate these predictions, highlighting both advancements and persistent challenges in areas such as data privacy, biometric security, and multi-vendor interoperability.

Hacktivist groups are driven by a political or ideological agenda. In the past, their actions were likened to symbolic, digital graffiti. Nowadays, hacktivist groups resemble urban gangs. Previously composed of low-skilled individuals, these groups have evolved into medium- to high-skill teams, often smaller in size but far more capable.

What does the present state of the Spanish-speaking cybercriminal underground look like? What are the most common scams and other illicit offerings peddled by cybercriminals? Unearth the secrets of the Spanish dark market in our research.

The English-speaking cybercriminal underground market has undergone significant transformations. We examine how it has adapted to new technology, increased law enforcement scrutiny, and linguistic diversification.