CrowdStrikeGlobalThreatReport2025.pdf

CROWDSTRIKE 2025 GLOBAL THREAT REPORT 2

Foreword

Don’t Underestimate Today’s Enterprising Adversaries

Watch any nature program, and you’ll quickly discover what happens to animals that underestimate their adversaries. They become prey. The same principle applies in cybersecurity — the adversary is advancing so fast that you can’t afford to underestimate them.

Our latest research demonstrates that adversaries are becoming more efficient, focused, and business-like in their approach — in many ways, more like the enterprise organizations they prey upon. That’s why our team of security analysts, experts, and authors chose “the enterprising adversary” as the theme for this year’s CrowdStrike Global Threat Report.

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