2025 Cloud Threat Hunting and Defense Landscape
Summary
Recorded Future reports on the evolving cloud threat landscape for 2025, highlighting increased exploitation of misconfigurations, abuse of native services, and pivoting through hybrid environments. Attack patterns are evolving across exploitation, ransomware, credential abuse, and targeting of AI services.
IFF Assessment
The report indicates an increasing sophistication and breadth of attacks targeting cloud environments, which is detrimental to defenders.
Defender Context
Defenders need to focus on hardening cloud configurations, monitoring for abuse of native services, and improving detection capabilities for lateral movement within hybrid environments. The increasing targeting of AI services suggests a need to implement robust security measures around AI deployments and data processing in the cloud. Continuous monitoring, threat intelligence integration, and proactive security assessments are crucial for staying ahead of these evolving threats.