The cyber threat landscape in 2025 will be shaped by increasingly sophisticated attacks, with ransomware, social engineering and AI-powered cybercrime remaining top concerns, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Cybersecurity Outlook.
Data breaches continued at historic levels in 2024, with 3,158 data compromises tracked by the Identity Theft Resource Center – on par with the previous record-breaking year. However, victim notices surged 211% to 1.3 billion, but this was largely due to five mega-breaches, each triggering over 100 million notices.
While 66% of organizations see AI as the biggest cybersecurity game-changer this year, only 37% have safeguards to assess AI tools before use, the report finds. This highlights the gap between awareness of AI risks and its unchecked adoption, adding to the growing complexity of cyberspace, where emerging technologies, geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities are creating new challenges for cybersecurity.
