The most important shifts in cyber security are not always the loudest. In 2025, the real story is how quickly attackers are sharpening the tactics that already work. Offensive security tooling, information stealers, ransomware affiliates, social engineering and the abuse of trusted platforms all remain firmly in play, but adversaries are now using them with greater speed, adaptability and resilience.
Bridewell’s latest Cyber Threat Intelligence Report gives security leaders a clear view of what has stayed constant, what is changing beneath the surface, and where organisations should focus attention as they prepare for 2026.
Report Highlights
By reading this report, you will learn:
- How attackers are refining familiar tactics to move faster, evade better and recover quickly from disruption.
- How adversary infrastructure is shifting, with malicious hosting patterns, C2 frameworks and infrastructure rotation revealing where attackers are building, hiding and sustaining operations before compromise becomes visible.
- Why identity-led compromise is becoming central to modern cyber attacks, from stolen credentials and session tokens to OAuth abuse and non-human identities.
- How information stealers continue to fuel ransomware, initial access and wider cyber crime.
- Why ransomware is fragmenting, with data theft increasingly rivaling encryption as the main extortion lever.
- How social engineering is evolving through techniques such as ClickFix, FileFix and ConsentFix.
- Why trusted platforms, cloud services and first-party applications are becoming part of the attack chain.
- How AI is amplifying attacker capability by accelerating reconnaissance, exploit development, social engineering and scale.
- What emerging risks security leaders should watch in 2026, including edge device exploitation, DPRK-linked activity, supply chain compromise and the convergence of cyber crime and state-aligned operations.
