2025 Forecast: AI to Supercharge Attacks, Quantum Threats Grow, SaaS Security Woes

Artificial intelligence will super-charge familiar 2024 threats in 2025, putting new wrinkles on old security challenges such as phishing, insider threats and ransomware.

Meanwhile artificial intelligence (AI) itself will increasingly be thrust in hacker crosshairs with AI models themselves coming under innovative new and constant threats such as malicious prompt injections from bad actors and large language model (LLM) data tampering by adversaries.

Red flag warnings also include a growing number of cyberattacks that have real world implications as hacks continue to impact the virtual and now the physical world. This year, experts shared with SC Media, that 2025 will be shaped by the rise and use of quantum computing attack techniques by adversaries aimed at exploiting existing and emerging encryption tech.

What follows is SC Media's annual roundup of security expert forecasts and predictions for the year ahead. And if and when any of these forecasts should become a reality SC Media will be here to help sort out who, what and why - including why it matters and how to best mitigate those attacks.