2025 APT Report Staying Ahead of the Modern Threat Landscape

This TrendAI 2025 APT Annual Report assesses a global rise in nation-state-aligned cyber operations—driven by China-, Russia-, and DPRK-linked actors—highlighting AI-enabled reconnaissance and autonomous kill chains, collaboration models that share long-term access (“Premier Pass-as-a-Service”), supply-chain and developer-ecosystem compromises, destructive wipers and credential theft campaigns, and sectoral targeting of government, technology, energy, and finance; it concludes with pragmatic defensive guidance emphasizing assumed-breach posture, AI-augmented defenses, supply-chain controls, and collective information sharing.