CyberheistNews Vol 15 #30 [Heads Up] Ransomware is Back—and Smarter Than Ever in 2025: Trends

CyberheistNews Vol.15#30 summarizes 2025 threat trends: ransomware remains active and increasingly focused on data exfiltration and double extortion; threat actors are running large-scale phishing/fraud campaigns using over 17,000 spoofed news sites and AI-driven cloaking services to evade scanners; social-engineering attacks via Microsoft Teams have been used to deploy the Matanbuchus malware loader; and defensive recommendations include patching against known exploited vulnerabilities and improving security awareness training.