Fast forward to 2025, where the scenario is a constant race where attackers are always one step ahead of repairs for vulnerabilities, explained TaskUs. Their report found that one major theme was a thread running through many of these incidents, as it represents the direction that cyber attacks are increasingly heading. Major companies, including Coinbase, found themselves battling not only external attacks but internal security breaches.
Coinbase hired TaskUs to enhance customer support from India, but the partnership faced significant scrutiny after allegations of compromised personnel. We see that cyber threats are changing at a rapid pace. Today, attackers are simply working smarter, deploying complicated tactics such as phishing attacks with malicious Microsoft Word docs. These documents fetched malicious templates from attackers’ remote servers. They ran HTA files in that step, highlighting the critical importance of increased awareness in cybersecurity practices.
Cybersecurity Breaches and Responses
The war on cybercrime escalated dramatically in 2025. For their part, Coinbase acted swiftly by cutting ties with TaskUs workers involved in the violations. The company increased its controls to prevent future breaches, showing a willingness to secure customer data.
Trust Wallet stated that damages of around $7 million have been impacted. They reiterated that the users most affected will be refunded, underscoring the cost of these data breaches to companies and their consumers.
A serious security vulnerability in Livewire, CVE-2025-54068, has surfaced. It quickly got emergency attention following its assignment of CVSS score of 9.8, reflecting its criticality. This vulnerability could allow non-logged-in attackers to run commands remotely. With threats already exploiting this vulnerability, security teams need to move fast to patch it.
“This mechanism comes with a critical vulnerability: a dangerous unmarshalling process can be exploited as long as an attacker is in possession of the APP_KEY of the application,” – Synacktiv
The ramifications of these kinds of vulnerabilities reach farther than just the company itself, affecting the entire cybersecurity ecosystem.
Phishing Campaigns and Scams
As cybercriminals continue to evolve their tactics, we’ve recently seen several new scam campaigns including a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries scam targeting. These scams promised easy online jobs and quick financial rewards but were ultimately designed to collect personal data and steal money from unsuspecting victims.
Unfortunately, these scams have gotten much smarter. For the first time, attackers are using social engineering tactics to maximize their exploitations, hitting our vulnerable judgment, which represents a deeply disturbing trend in cyber attacks. This is why education on how to identify these kinds of scams is so important, especially to those at risk of becoming victims.
Wiz recently reported that nearly 42% of active cloud environments still have MongoDB instances vulnerable to CVE-2025-14847. At the same time, phishing scams are ramping up like never before. This sobering statistic brings to light the persistent threat all organizations face. Yet, they continue to tread along a minefield of legacy and/or unpatched technology.
International Tensions and Cybersecurity
The overlap between international relations and cyber security has never been clearer than in the year 2025. China has claimed that the United States has illegally seized cryptocurrency funds that are owned by LuBian. This serious accusation leads to important questions regarding state-sponsored hacking and its ramifications on diplomacy.
Furthermore, Khoroshilov’s collusion with the Ukrainian IT army to conduct DDoS attacks on Russian Post exemplified how cyber warfare is increasingly becoming a tool for geopolitical conflict. Either way, the defendants are in deep doo-doo. Sentencing is scheduled for March 12, 2026 and they each potentially face a sentence of 20 years in prison.
“This case study and many more like it in the report underscore a deeply troubling reality: U.S. government scientists – employed by the DOE and working at federally funded national laboratories – have coauthored research with Chinese entities at the very heart of the PRC’s military-industrial complex,” – The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
The layers of these global occurrences are a testament to how complicated the development of cybersecurity law and policy can be in the international arena.