Top Cyber Threat Trends of 2025 from Deepfakes, ClickFix, and ViewState Exploits

This Huntress Tradecraft Tuesday recap summarizes 2025 threat trends: expanding ClickFix social‑engineering attacks (including cross‑platform and FileFix variants) that weaponize copy‑and‑paste, an increase in deepfake-enabled impersonation and financial fraud, and ASP.NET ViewState deserialization exploitation driven by exposed machine keys (with active incidents tied to CVE-2025-30406 and CVE-2025-53690); it also describes MetaStealer delivery chains and recommends operational mitigations such as disabling Run dialog hotkeys and implementing stronger validation against deepfake social engineering.