CyOps Examination of Cyber Hostility and Operations: 2H 2025
Frontline findings from Cynet’s global security operations center and threat intelligence teams.
There’s never been a more critical time for CISOs and MSPs to understand where gaps exist in their environment and take proactive measures to prepare to defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.
The 2H 2025 CyOps ECHO Report shows how modern breaches exploit identity, sessions, and trusted tools instead of vulnerabilities, and why security that relies primarily on prevention can’t keep up.
Real incident response investigations revealed the depth of the new reality: exploitation now happens in days, not months, and attackers succeed by abusing legitimate access rather than breaking controls.
Real Attacks You’ll See Inside the Report
- Extortion-Only Ransomware: Attackers skip encryption and go straight to data theft
- Ransomware Persistence After Recovery: Adversaries remain active even after systems are restored
- Firewall Exploitation + Living-off-the-Land: Legitimate admin tools used for stealth lateral movement
- Microsoft Teams Social Engineering: Users grant remote access during trusted collaboration sessions
What You’ll Learn
- How attackers bypass MFA using session and OAuth abuse
- Why ransomware no longer needs encryption to cause impact
- How infostealers became the primary initial access vector
- What machine-speed response actually means for 2026
The findings in this report reflect the research of the CyOps Threat Intelligence team throughout 2025. Cynet’s team of CyOps Threat Researchers monitor, document, and communicate directly with partners and security teams on the most critical vulnerabilities and active threats observed in customer environments. Cynet partners and customers can get access to proactive threat hunting, incident response, attack investigation, threat intelligence reporting, and 24x7 remediation guidance and more.
