threat_horizons_report_h1_2025.pdf

H1 2025 Threat Horizons Report

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Table of Contents

Mission Statement 03

Executive Summary 04

New Data Points to Threat Actors Increasingly Exploiting 06

Overprivileged Service Accounts to Move Laterally

The Boundary of Identity 11

Database Security: Critical Cloud Protection 14

Threat Actor Spotlight: UNC2165 Ransomware 16

and Data Theft Extortion

Disrupting Financially Motivated Threat Actors 21

Conducting Cloud Hijacking Campaigns

Growing Threat from Data Leak Sites Enabling 24

Extortion in the Cloud

Contributors 27

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Mission Statement

The Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report provides

decision-makers with strategic intelligence on threats to

not just Google Cloud, but all provide…