Mandiant's 2025 M-Trends report highlights a growing landscape of cyber threats dominated by financially motivated actors, particularly ransomware groups that are accelerating their operations. The report reveals that over half of active cyber threat groups now pursue financial gain, with ransomware gangs increasingly adept at evading defenses and moving swiftly from intrusion to impact. These trends are corroborated by additional research from Google Cloud's Mandiant and analysis from SentinelOne, which maps ransomware tactics against the MITRE ATT&CK framework, emphasizing defense evasion as a central technique. CyberScoopNews further notes that both cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups intensified their exploitation of vulnerabilities and ransomware attacks in the previous year, expanding their reach and effectiveness in compromising victims.