Those lines belong to Polonius, the meddling old counselor in Hamlet, sending his son off to France with a satchel of fatherly advice: buy the best clothes you can afford, because people will judge you by what you wear. For most of history that worked in both directions. A uniform, a badge, a logo on
The second half (H2) of 2025 tells a malware story of contrasts and dichotomies. Like the first half of the year, network-based malware detection is up in volume. However, from the endpoint perspective, total malware is down overall in H2, dropping the most in Q4. Meanwhile, from the network perspective, evasive and sophisticated zero-day malware
Like rings on a tree trunk, each year of experience etches a mark on our understanding of the world. We learn from successes, adapt from failures, and gradually accumulate a wisdom born of time and observation. In cybersecurity, this long-term perspective is invaluable. Fads come and go, new technologies emerge, but the fundamental principles of
Upon our planet, an intricate and vibrant ecosystem thrives, where diverse life forms engage in a symbiotic dance that sustains and enriches all. Birds, animals, plants, insects, and humans coexist in a delicate balance, each doing its part to support the health and growth of everyone. Think of the diligent bee pollinating blossoms and promising
At the highest level, network malware almost doubled, but endpoint malware reached an all-time low. We also saw sophistication in network-detected malware increase with the increase in our zero-day malware percentage, but at the endpoint, unique and new malware is way down, suggesting that what the endpoints saw was more generic and run-of-the-mill malware variants.
Cybersecurity is all about staying one step ahead of your adversaries, managing and mitigating risk before threat actors can execute their attack. However, knowing what step to take next is often the most difficult challenge organizations face. In a perfect world we’d all have infinite resources to devote to securing our assets and users, but
Forecasting, or put another way, predicting the future, is hard! Few know this better than meteorologists. Among the general public, weathermen and women have an unfair reputation of missing their forecasts often, with people complaining, “they only get it right 50 percent of the time.” This is probably because forecast accuracy was much lower decades
The changing threat landscape reality and the frequency, sophistication and targeted nature of adversaries requires an evolution of security operational practices with a combination of prevention, detection and response of cyberattacks. Most organization have the means to detect known attacks, although a few of these can still slip by. What has been historically difficult is
After a very difficult 2020, filled with the pandemic, global political strife and regional societal conflicts, everyone was looking for a fresh start in 2021. Not only did last year’s global discord affect us all personally, but it also brought changes to the IT world that resulted in new threat landscape trends, which required reimagined
Introduction Sometimes we have bigger problems to address than cyber attacks. That’s how I currently feel as I sit here trying to come up with some “fun” metaphorical illustration of why you should follow the cyber threat trends we present in this report. As I type this, a global pandemic has put lives and livelihoods
