Key Points
• AI-powered social engineering is expected to fuel voice phishing attacks in 2025, with ransomware groups using AI-generated voices to enhance credibility and success rates.
• Sophisticated ransomware groups will continue to use a trifecta of social engineering attacks, vishing, ransomware, and data exfiltration, to target specific companies and evade law enforcement scrutiny.
• Targeted industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, education, and energy will remain primary targets, with no slowdown in attacks expected.
Ransomware Attacks on the Rise: Zscaler ThreatLabz Predictions for 2025
Microsoft customers and users are on high alert as the latest ransomware report from Zscaler ThreatLabz reveals critical insights and predictions on ransomware trends for 2025. The report sheds light on actionable strategies to mitigate risks and highlights the growing threat of ransomware attacks.
The report predicts that AI-powered social engineering will play a significant role in voice phishing attacks in 2025. With the increasing use of GenAI-based tooling, ransomware groups will use AI-generated voices to adopt local accents and dialects, making them sound more realistic and increasing their credibility and success rates.
Ransomware Predictions for 2025
• AI-Powered Social Engineering: Ransomware groups will use AI-generated voices to enhance credibility and success rates in voice phishing attacks.
• The Trifecta of Social Engineering Attacks: Sophisticated ransomware groups will continue to use vishing, ransomware, and data exfiltration to target specific companies and evade law enforcement scrutiny.
• Targeted Industries Under Siege: Manufacturing, healthcare, education, and energy will remain primary targets, with no slowdown in attacks expected.
New SEC Regulations Drive Increased Transparency
The report also highlights new SEC regulations that will drive increased transparency in reporting ransomware attacks and payouts. As a result, 2025 is expected to see an uptick in reported ransomware attacks and payouts due to tighter requirements mandating that public companies report material incidents within four business days.
Ransomware Payouts on the Rise
The report also predicts that ransom demands will most likely increase in 2025 due to an evolving ecosystem of cybercrime groups specializing in designated attack tactics and collaboration by these groups using Ransomware-as-a-Service.
To combat damaging ransomware attacks, Zscaler ThreatLabz recommends adopting AI-powered zero-trust security systems that detect and mitigate new threats. The company also emphasizes the importance of a Zero Trust cloud security platform, which stops ransomware at every stage of the attack cycle by minimizing the attack surface, preventing compromise, eliminating lateral movement, and stopping data loss.
To learn more about ransomware threats and download the Zscaler 2024 Ransomware Report, please visit the Zscaler website.
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