This year, cybercrime got a teenage makeover. Groups like Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, part of the loose collective ‘The Com’ and filled with young, radicalized hackers, became a top threat. Their aggressive tactics led to high-profile breaches in 2025, including attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Jaguar Land Rover.
Meanwhile, insider attacks exploded: employees secretly working for ransomware gangs, zero-day brokers selling to Russia, and a million-dollar-worth crypto heist at Coinbase.
In 2025 we also saw AI evolve from being a futuristic threat to a threat which can power real malware, with AI tools like Claude helping criminals automate attacks at terrifying speed.
We sat down with Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manage & Researcher at Sophos and Will Thomas, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru, to discuss 2025’s highs and lows in cybersecurity and cybercrime – and to make educated guesses on what to look for in 2026.
Their prediction? That 2026 could bring live deepfake heists (imagine a fake CEO on a video call draining company funds) and nation-states weaponizing insiders for destructive cyberwar.
This episode is sponsored by SailPoint.
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This year, cybercrime got a teenage makeover. Groups like Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, part of the loose collective ‘The Com’ and filled with young, radicalized hackers, became a top threat. Their aggressive tactics led to high-profile breaches in 2025, including attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Jaguar Land Rover.
Meanwhile, insider attacks exploded: employees secretly working for ransomware gangs, zero-day brokers selling to Russia, and a million-dollar-worth crypto heist at Coinbase.
In 2025 we also saw AI evolve from being a futuristic threat to a threat which can power real malware, with AI tools like Claude helping criminals automate attacks at terrifying speed.
We sat down with Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manage & Researcher at Sophos and Will Thomas, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru, to discuss 2025’s highs and lows in cybersecurity and cybercrime – and to make educated guesses on what to look for in 2026.
Their prediction? That 2026 could bring live deepfake heists (imagine a fake CEO on a video call draining company funds) and nation-states weaponizing insiders for destructive cyberwar.
This episode is sponsored by SailPoint.
Operation Cronos took the cybersecurity world by storm as law enforcement disrupted one of the most prolific ransomware gangs in the world.
Now the dust has settled it’s time for a first assessment of the takedown’s impact on the LockBit ransomware group.
In this episode, the Infosecurity Magazine team goes behind the scenes of the law enforcement operation with Prodaft, a threat intelligence company that collaborated with the FBI, the NCA, and Europol to take down the group’s infrastructure.
We also dissected the operation’s impact on LockBit’s activity and explored what the future holds for this notorious cybercriminal organization, with great insights from RedSense, another threat intelligence firm that spent three years investigating the group.
You will hear from:
-Koryak Uzan, co-founder of Prodaft (6.52)
-Marley Smith, principal threat researcher at RedSense and Yelisey Bohuslavskyi, RedSense co-founder (31.36)
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This year, cybercrime got a teenage makeover. Groups like Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, part of the loose collective ‘The Com’ and filled with young, radicalized hackers, became a top threat. Their aggressive tactics led to high-profile breaches in 2025, including attacks on Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Jaguar Land Rover.
Meanwhile, insider attacks exploded: employees secretly working for ransomware gangs, zero-day brokers selling to Russia, and a million-dollar-worth crypto heist at Coinbase.
In 2025 we also saw AI evolve from being a futuristic threat to a threat which can power real malware, with AI tools like Claude helping criminals automate attacks at terrifying speed.
We sat down with Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manage & Researcher at Sophos and Will Thomas, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru, to discuss 2025’s highs and lows in cybersecurity and cybercrime – and to make educated guesses on what to look for in 2026.
Their prediction? That 2026 could bring live deepfake heists (imagine a fake CEO on a video call draining company funds) and nation-states weaponizing insiders for destructive cyberwar.
This episode is sponsored by SailPoint.
