Kaspersky's GReAT looks back on the 2024 predictions about financial and crimeware threats, and explores potential cybercrime trends for 2025.

Crimeware predictions for 2025

  1. Upsurge in stealer activity
  2. Attacks against central banks and open banking initiatives
  3. Increase in supply chain attacks on open-source projects
  4. New blockchain-based threats
  5. Expansion of Chinese-speaking crimeware worldwide
  6. Synthetic data poisoning through ransomware
  7. Quantum-resistant ransomware
  8. Weaponization of regulatory compliance by ransomware attackers
  9. Ransomware-as-a-service proliferation
  10. More AI and machine learning on the defense side
  11. Upsurge in financial cyberattacks targeting smartphones