Report by Red Canary

Threat Detection Report 2025

12 FINDINGSPublished Mar 18, 2025
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Key Findings

None of the nearly 93,000 threats analysed in Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report were prevented by customers' expansive security controls.

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Cyber threatSecurity controls

Organisations in the educational services sector accounted for 63 percent of all VPN use.

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VPNEducation

Cloud-native and identity-enabled techniques surged in the Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report, with Cloud Accounts, Email Forwarding Rule, and Email Hiding Rules ranking among the top five.

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CloudIdentity

LummaC2, the most prevalent stealer detected in 2024, sells for anywhere from $250 per month to a one-time payment of $20,000.

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StealerLummaC2

Red Canary detected 400 percent more macOS threats in 2024 than in 2023.

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macOS

Atomic Stealer appeared on Red Canary's monthly top 10 threat rankings five times.

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Atomic Stealer

95% of stealer infections happened before September 2024.

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Stealer infection

Just 5% of stealer infections occurred after September 2024

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Stealer infection

The Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report noted four times as many identity attacks compared to the 2024 edition.

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IdentityIdentity attack

NetSupport Manager was Red Canary's seventh most detected threat detected in 2024.

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NetSupport Manager

Red Canary saw malicious use of NetSupport Manager break its yearly top 10.

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NetSupport Manager

The total number of threats detected in Red Canary's 2025 Threat Detection Report increased by more than a third compared to 2024's report.

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Cyber threat