Findings From The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report

Tidal Cyber’s 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report argues that traditional detection is failing as adversary TTPs rapidly evolve, spotlighting examples like Void Rabisu’s shifting objectives, Scattered Spider’s SaaS and virtualization abuse, and Akira’s procedural persistence, alongside macro trends such as commoditized zero-days, AI-driven social engineering, leverage-based ransomware, and geopolitical blurring; it recommends moving from abstract technique mapping to granular behavioral procedures, instituting continuous validation and purple teaming, and refocusing detection on identity, SaaS, and cloud-control telemetry to build resilient, adaptive defenses into 2026.