The road ahead is challenging, but with a proactive approach, businesses can stay one step ahead of their adversaries.
Fortinet has released its threat predictions for 2025, highlighting both ongoing challenges and new emerging threats.
The rapid adoption of new technologies, from AI to multi-cloud infrastructure, has introduced vulnerabilities that attackers can quickly exploit.
Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty create a fertile backdrop for increasingly sophisticated, targeted, complex, and organized cyberattacks.
This complexity underpins the recently released 2025 Threat Predictions Report from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs. The report indicates a shift in cyber adversaries’ tactics, expected to embrace greater specialization, automation, and even hybrid approaches combining digital and physical threats.
Bigger and Bolder Threats in 2025
While these predictions focus on future challenges, they also offer strategic insights for organizations to enhance resilience.
Fortinet’s report highlights notable changes in the way cybercriminals operate. One standout prediction is the rise of specialization within the cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) market.
Where generalists once offered comprehensive attack tools, many CaaS providers are now narrowing their focus on specific stages of the attack chain, such as reconnaissance or payload delivery. This shift allows for greater precision and efficiency in executing cyberattacks.
The cloud environment also features prominently in Fortinet’s 2025 forecast. With more organizations relying on multi-cloud infrastructure, cybercriminals are turning their attention to these lucrative targets.
Fortinet predicts the proliferation of automated hacking tools, driven by AI advancements. Tools leveraging large language models (LLMs) are expected to streamline reconnaissance and enable the creation of sophisticated phishing tools.
As a result, the report advocates for expanding anti-adversary frameworks. It predicts that collaborative measures will grow stronger and more widespread, disrupting cybercrime on a larger scale.
Cybercriminals continue to enhance their strategies, executing attacks that are increasingly aggressive and damaging. Related efforts, such as the World Economic Forum’s Cybercrime Atlas initiative, are already underway, and Fortinet anticipates more collaborative initiatives to counter escalating threats.
Changes from 2024 to 2025
Examining Fortinet’s 2025 predictions reveals how the threat landscape may evolve from 2024.
Insights from Trellix’s 2024 findings on computer and network security allow us to compare what will change and what might remain consistent.
Both reports acknowledge the interconnected nature of today’s cybercrime networks. Trellix highlights how ransomware groups and other threat actors leverage partnerships to maximize their reach.
Fortinet’s emphasis on specialization reflects a refinement of this collaborative dynamic, pointing to a future where threat actors are not only numerous but also highly skilled in specific areas.
Both reports stress the importance of securing the cloud, highlighting how cloud security and threat detection within these environments will remain critical.
While Trellix warns about AI misuse in areas like disinformation campaigns, Fortinet focuses on how advancements in AI will specifically support CaaS offerings and automation.
Fortinet’s 2025 Predictions:
- Greater specialization in emerging attack chains
- Cyberattacks targeting cloud environments
- Proliferation of automated hacking tools
- Threats extending into the physical world
- Expansion of anti-adversary frameworks
One unique aspect of Fortinet’s report, absent from Trellix’s 2024 findings, is the incorporation of physical threats alongside cyber threats.
Fortinet predicts adversaries will expand their playbooks to combine cyberattacks with real-world physical threats.
This forecast is based on reports of cybercriminal groups physically threatening executives and employees in some cases. Fortinet believes this trend will not only increase but also become a standard part of many adversaries’ strategies.
They also anticipate transnational crime will become a regular component of more sophisticated playbooks, with cybercriminal groups and transnational crime organizations collaborating.
Approaching the Threat Landscape of 2025
As we move toward 2025, the threat landscape will become more sophisticated, targeted, and diverse.
Fortinet’s predictions highlight how cybercriminals are adapting their tactics to exploit emerging vulnerabilities.
Comparing this to Trellix’s 2024 report, we see how tactics may shift and the reasoning behind these changes.
Despite differences in the 2024 and 2025 threat landscapes, both emphasize the need for organizations to remain vigilant, foster collaboration, and invest in forward-thinking strategies.
Sumber:
https://cybermagazine.com/articles/fortinet-charing-the-changes-of-the-2025-threat-landscape
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