Cybersecurity and AI: What does 2025 have in store?

A forward-looking 2025 outlook describes how AI is expected to amplify cyberthreats—enabling more convincing social engineering and BEC via deepfakes, impersonation and influencer scams, disinformation at scale, and accelerated password cracking—while also increasing privacy risks from data used to train models and complicating compliance. It highlights AI’s benefits for defenders (synthetic training data, threat report summarization, alert prioritization and automation, anomaly detection, and copilot-assisted configuration) but stresses the need for human oversight to mitigate hallucinations and model drift, and notes regulatory uncertainty that could shape how these risks and defenses evolve.