21 January 2025

2025 cyber threats: The new battlefield for organizations - opinion

DR. NIMROD KOZLOVSKI

As 2025 begins, the cyber threat landscape is becoming more ubiquitous and dangerous than ever before. Global conflicts, artificial intelligence, and the increasing interconnectedness of our digital and physical infrastructure have created the perfect storm for unprecedented incidents.

As someone who has spent years handling cyber threats, first as a crisis manager and later as founder and CEO of a cyber crisis management and readiness platform, I can say with certainty that we're entering a new era of cyber attacks and mega cyber events.

The ongoing political and military conflicts across the globe - The Middle East, Russia-Ukraine, and the Koreas, to name a few, have fundamentally transformed how we think about cyber warfare.

Commercial entities now regularly find themselves in the crossfire as tactical and strategic targets. Traditional boundaries between military and civilian targets have blurred, with nations increasingly viewing the business sector as a legitimate battlefield for their cyber operations.

The sophistication of modern attacks is a broad concern. We're witnessing the emergence of multi- layered extortion schemes - moving beyond single extortion ransomware to double, triple, and even quadruple extortion schemes.

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