Enterprise

Agenda has rapidly grown into one of the most prolific and dangerous ransomware operations, leveraging advanced techniques, cross-platform variants, and alliances with other major threat groups. Its aggressive double-extortion model and expanding victim base across critical industries make it a serious enterprise risk that demands proactive detection and defense.

Drawing on insights from Trend Micro’s global researchers and security experts, this year’s edition of our annual security predictions report highlights the AI-driven shifts set to shape 2026 and beyond.

AI’s rapid growth brings new risks as well as opportunities. Strong security foundations are essential to ensure innovation remains safe, compliant, and resilient.

The Trend 2025 Cyber Risk Report sustains our shift towards proactive security. Protecting enterprises is no longer about stopping breaches but is now about staying ahead, making cybersecurity a business enabler. By looking at the 2025 risk landscape, we recognize exposures and understand attacker behavior to be able to implement countermeasures, transforming security from a challenge to a catalyst for innovation and business growth.

Consumer data will be the hot commodity in the underground for 2025, with cybercrime expected to cost over $10 trillion in this coming year. Criminals will continue to develop new ways to exploit vulnerable areas, increasing enterprise risk as the attack surface expands.

2024 is poised to be a hotbed for new challenges in cybersecurity as the economic and political terrains continue to undergo digitization and enterprises increasingly leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the cloud, and Web3 technologies. While these innovations are expected to lend a hand to organizations, they also provide opportunities for cybercriminals by promising big returns, more streamlined operations on wider impact zones, and more targeted victims.

Enterprises and organizations are facing a period of transition and uncertainty – malicious actors will hunker down and reuse tried-and-tested tools and techniques.

Many employees have set up makeshift work spaces in their homes. This could leave them more susceptible to ransomware attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities in unsecured spaces.

We analyzed the tools, relationships, and behaviors used in a long-standing intrusion of a company after its security team observed malicious C&C traffic.