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As we look ahead to 2025, the cybersecurity landscape is poised for significant shifts and challenges. Here are some key predictions that I believe will take place or start to happen in the coming year.

The FBI issued an advisory on December 3rd warning the public of how threat actors use generative AI to more quickly and efficiently create messaging to defraud their victims, echoing earlier warnings issued by Trustwave SpiderLabs. The FBI noted that publicly available tools assist criminals with content creation and can correct human errors that might otherwise serve as warning signs of fraud.

It was a cold and wet Thursday morning, sometime in early 2006. There I was sitting at the very top back row of an awe-inspiring lecture theatre inside Royal Holloway's Founder’s Building in Egham, Surrey (UK) while studying for my MSc in Information Security. Back then, the lecture in progress was from the software security module. The first rule of software security back then was never to trust user inputs.

IDC has positioned Trustwave as a Major Player in the just released IDC MarketScape Worldwide Cloud Security Services in the AI Era 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment (IDC, November 2024) for its comprehensive set of offensive and defensive cloud security services. IDC said organizations should consider Trustwave when “Enterprises with varying levels of security maturity that require customized hybrid approach and depth of offensive and defensive security capabilities should consider Trustwave.

As 2024 comes to a close, we went around the room and asked some of Trustwave’s top executives what cybersecurity issues and technology they saw playing a prominent role in 2025. Over the next several weeks their thoughts will be posted here, so please read on and stay tuned! As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, its applications in cybersecurity will become more prominent and will spark conversations around its potential and its risks.

Trustwave has launched two additional Microsoft Security accelerators designed to quickly increase an organization’s security maturity and identify potential cost-saving initiatives. The new accelerators are focused on Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra ID.

As 2024 comes to a close, we went around the room and asked some of Trustwave’s top executives what cybersecurity issues and technology they saw playing a prominent role in 2025. Over the next several weeks their thoughts will be posted here, so please read on and stay tuned! As we approach 2025, cybersecurity landscapes are set to evolve in unprecedented ways, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage for both cyber defenders and threat actors alike.

Welcome to the second part of our investigation into the Rockstar kit, please check out part one here. This blog tackles real-world Rockstar 2FA email examples incorporating noteworthy techniques.

Whether the means of a cyber-attack are phishing, ransomware, advanced persistent threat, malware, or some combination, the target is ultimately the same: your data. So, as companies seek to implement a zero-trust approach to security, they would do well to include database protection. Interest in Zero Trust is certainly high, with nearly two-thirds (63%) of organizations worldwide having implemented a zero-trust strategy, according to a recent Gartner survey. But it is hardly all-encompassing.

On November 20th, 2024, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) researchers disclosed a critical flaw in 7-Zip. This widely used open-source file archiving software enables remote actors to perform remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable 7-Zip versions. This vulnerability was originally discovered earlier this year and was reported to 7-Zip in June 2024.