cybersecurity threats 2025: I've Spent 15 Years on the Cyber Frontlines. These Are the Threats That Truly Scare Me for 2025.
I've Spent 15 Years on the Cyber Frontlines. These Are the Threats That Truly Scare Me for 2025. Let’s get one thing straight: most articles about cybersecurity threats are just recycled lists of jargon. They’re written to scare you, not to prepare you. I should know. I’ve spent the last decade and a half not just writing about this stuff, but living it—from being the guy on a 3 a.m. incident response call trying to contain a breach, to architecting multi-million dollar security systems for companies whose names you’d definitely recognize. I remember one particularly brutal week back in 2016. We were dealing with a ransomware variant that was tearing through a client’s network. We worked 72 hours straight, fueled by cold pizza and the sheer adrenaline of the fight. We eventually contained it, but the client lost days of productivity and a significant amount of data they couldn't recover. At the time, I thought, "This is the worst it can get." I was wrong. So, so wr...