1、2 0 2 5G L O B A L T H R E ATR E P O R TCROWDSTRIKE 2025 GLOBAL THREAT REPORT 2ForewordDont Underestimate Todays Enterprising AdversariesWatch any nature program,and youll quickly discover what happens to animals that underestimate their adversaries.They become prey.The same principle applies in cyb

2、ersecurity the adversary is advancing so fast that you cant afford to underestimate them.Our latest research demonstrates that adversaries are becoming more efficient,focused,and business-like in their approach in many ways,more like the enterprise organizations they prey upon.Thats why our team of

3、security analysts,experts,and authors chose“the enterprising adversary”as the theme for this years CrowdStrike Global Threat Report.Take generative artificial intelligence(genAI),for instance.Highly effective adversaries across all major categories nation-state,eCrime,and hacktivist have become earl

4、y and avid adopters.The“force multiplier”impact of off-the-shelf chatbots has made genAI a popular addition to the global hacker toolbox.Along with legitimate organizations,easy access to commercial large language models(LLMs)is making adversaries more productive,too.Its shortening their learning cu

5、rve and development cycles,and its allowing them to increase the scale and pace of their activities.Though this report indicates that malicious use of AI is growing,it remains largely iterative and evolutionary at this point in time.Only occasionally does it manifest as an entirely novel use case.Bu

6、t it is still early days.At CrowdStrike,we arent waiting for threat actors to experience their next“aha”moment.We are accelerating our own use of AI techniques from our foundational machine learning capabilities to our leading-edge generative and agentic AI models to help our customers anticipate th