2025 Cloud Threat Hunting and Defense Landscape

Insikt Group's cloud threat landscape report documents a rising trend of attackers exploiting cloud misconfigurations, stolen credentials, third-party compromises, and cloud-native service abuse (including LLM/ML services) to conduct espionage, data theft, ransomware, and large-scale campaigns; it catalogs concrete incidents (e.g., Barracuda ESG, Grafana, WhoAMI AMI confusion, Oracle EBS extortion, Storm-0501, APT41, Silk Typhoon) and provides detailed detection, mitigation, and supply-chain recommendations for defenders.