ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews some of the report’s standout findings and their implications for organizations in 2025 and beyond
01 Jul 2025
The ESET research team has released the H1 2025 issue of the ESET Threat Report, offering a detailed look at the key trends and developments that defined the cyberthreat landscape from December 2024 through May 2025.
Among other things, the report describes how a novel social engineering technique called ClickFix has taken the threat landscape by storm, with detections of this threat soaring more than five-fold in H1 2025 compared to the second half of 2024. Android adware detections, for their part, jumped by 160%, mainly on the back of new evil twin fraud and the rise of potentially unwanted apps (PUAs). Meanwhile the number of both ransomware attacks and gangs has also been growing, although the total value of payments trended in the opposite direction.
Watch the video with SET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to learn more and make sure to check out the report itself, including to learn which categories of threats surged and which trended down – and what it all means for your cybersecurity in 2025 and beyond.
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