Crimeware predictions for 2025

1. Upsurge in stealer activity
2. Attacks against central banks and open banking initiatives
3. Increase in supply chain attacks on open-source projects
4. New blockchain-based threats
5. Expansion of Chinese-speaking crimeware worldwide
6. Synthetic data poisoning through ransomware
7. Quantum-resistant ransomware
8. Weaponization of regulatory compliance by ransomware attackers
9. Ransomware-as-a-service proliferation
10. More AI and machine learning on the defense side
11. Upsurge in financial cyberattacks targeting smartphones