2025 Wrapped: Updates on This Year’s Hottest Topics

About this episode

The episode recaps the key cybersecurity topics of 2025, including new adversaries and trends in cybercrime.

This was a busy year for the Adversary Universe podcast. We covered the emergence of new adversaries, the weaponization of AI, critical CrowdStrike research, and how cyberattacks look in different regions of the world.To recap 2025, we’re revisiting the topics that resonated most with our listeners to share year-end updates. Adam and Cristian cover the I-Soon data leaks, evolution of China as a nation-state threat, re-emergence of SCATTERED SPIDER, and the latest in ransomware-as-a-service. Tune in to learn the factors that may shape Chinese cyber operations in 2026 and why SCATTERED SPIDER activity looks different now compared to its summer of cybercrime. As a bonus, Adam shares some of the latest eCrime stats his team is seeing as we close out 2025 and explains why he believes we’ll see “an explosion of zero-days” in the months ahead. The adversary never slows down — and neither do we. We look forward to bringing you more information on the newest cyber threats in 2026. For more information:• I-Soon episode: See You I-Soon: A Peek at China’s Offensive Cyber Operations• Blog post: Unveiling WARP PANDA, a New Sophisticated China-Nexus Adversary• Blog post: CrowdStrike Services…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adam, Cristian

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• AI weaponization
• data leaks
• nation-state threats
• ransomware
• eCrime statistics

Keywords

• cyberattacks
• I-Soon data leaks
• China cyber operations
• SCATTERED SPIDER
• zero-days
• eCrime stats

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CrowdStrike, SCATTERED SPIDER, I-Soon

Places: China

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