What We Learned from 2025's Biggest Hacks: 4 Takeaways

This report outlines how adversaries have integrated AI across the attack lifecycle—weaponizing trust via supply-chain and edge compromises, conducting deepfake-driven recruitment scams that delivered malware and stole cryptocurrency, leveraging malicious LLMs and automated exploit generation to accelerate attacks, and operating large-scale AI propaganda systems as revealed by the GoLaxy leak—resulting in faster, more scalable, and harder-to-detect campaigns with substantial geopolitical and financial impact.