Cloud Breaches And Identity Hacks Explode In Crowdstrike's Latest Threat Report
CrowdStrike, Monday, August 4th, 2025
A new report out today from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. has revealed a dramatic escalation in adversary sophistication, with cloud-focused attacks, identity-driven intrusions and generative artificial intelligence adoption driving a major shift in the cybersecurity threat landscape.
The findings come from the CrowdStrike 2025 Threat Hunting report, based on a year of data through June 30 from the company's OverWatch managed threat hunting operations, threat intelligence team and telemetry across the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. The report is being released to coincide with the annual Black Hat USA 2025 conference this week in Las Vegas.
Headlining the report was a finding that interactive intrusions rose 27% year-over-year between July 2024 and June 2025, with a highly surprising 81% of attacks found to be malware-free. CrowdStrike said the shift away from leading with malware signals a move toward stealthier techniques such as credential abuse, lateral movement and defense evasion.