Since the earliest days of the internet, there has never been a let-up in adversarial activity. According to CrowdStrike’s just-released 12th annual Global Threat Report, malicious activity in cyberspace continues to not only accelerate but also expand its scale and increasingly abuse the trust of targeted organizations. The good news is that, despite discussion of AI democratizing threat activity, the volume of adversaries that government and corporate entities are contending with didn’t grow at an accelerated rate in 2025, according to CrowdStrike’s findings. “We added 24 new adversaries over the course of the last year, which is equivalent to what we did the year before,” Adam Meyers, hea...