CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report: Beware the Enterprising Adversary

**Executive summary:** The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report summary describes 2024 as the year of the enterprising adversary, noting faster breakout times (median eCrime breakout 48 minutes, fastest 51 seconds), a surge in social engineering (vishing up 442%), growing use of generative AI to scale attacks, increased China-nexus nation-state activity, and rising cloud/SaaS exploitation and insider threat activity—providing guidance on adversary behaviors and defenses.