What’s Trending: Top Cyber Attacker Techniques, September–November 2025

**Executive summary:** This Sept–Nov 2025 threat report highlights a shift toward trust-based attacks—led by BaoLoader abusing legitimate code-signing, malvertising, and trusted-system utilities—alongside rising ClickFix social-engineering campaigns and Maverick banking trojan activity; Vidar 2.0 is pivoting to enterprise cloud credential theft, and ransomware actors (notably Qilin and Akira) continue to exploit unpatched internet-facing vulnerabilities, driving significant operational risk and a 57% rise in victims within PSTS firms.