Officials said 30 perpetrators have been arrested in the past year, and global law enforcement cooperation is closing the gap.

Lesley Bernys Executive Director, DOD Cyber Crime Center & Jeffrey Hunt Global Operations Branch Chief, DOD Cyber Crime Center

Too many defenders and researchers are paying attention to defects and unsubstantiated exploit concepts that aren’t worth their time, VulnCheck’s Caitlin Condon said.

The average time from intrusion to network movement in 2025 was 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from the year prior.

Oleksandr Didenko ran laptop farms and provided forged or stolen identities to North Korean operatives who gained remote employment at 40 U.S. businesses.

Kenny Paterson - Professor of Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Matthew Akande was living in Mexico when he and at least three co-conspirators broke into the networks of tax preparation firms and filed more than 1,000 fraudulent…

The 47-year-old man, who was not identified, faces up to five years in prison for producing, obtaining and sharing computer programs used to conduct cyberattacks.

Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems.

Stephen Schmidt - SVP & Chief Security Officer at Amazon