M-Trends 2025: Data, Insights, and Recommendations From the Frontlines

M-Trends 2025 summarizes findings from Mandiant investigations in 2024, noting a shift toward financially motivated groups (55%), exploits as the most common initial infection vector (33%) with stolen credentials rising to second (16%), increased median dwell time (11 days), and heightened activity from DPRK- and Iran-linked actors; the report highlights targeting of cloud SSO and Web3 and provides actionable recommendations such as FIDO2 MFA, layered defenses, improved logging, and cloud security controls.