The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides one of the clearest views yet into how cybercrime is evolving into a mature, interdependent ecosystem. Perhaps the most chilling theme from this year’s DBIR is the growing interdependence between threat actors. Further, attackers are turning their attention to network perimeters and management consoles—where patching is hard, visibility is fragmented, and exposure is high. The resort also found that 30% of breaches now involve a third-party component—double from last year. Lastly, GenAI risks are growing. This year’s DBIR makes it clear: cybercrime has scaled—because the infrastructure to support it has matured. Security must now operate with the same scale, speed, and adaptability as the threats we face.

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