M-Trends 2025 Report: Public Sector Edition

Stay ahead of the cyber threats targeting government agencies with frontline insights from our incident response investigations.

This special Public Sector Edition of the M-Trends 2025 report analyzes the dynamic threat landscape through a public sector lens, providing government security professionals with actionable guidance to protect critical infrastructure, sensitive data, and public trust.

Key threats and trends contextualized for the public sector include:

• Nation-state threats, including campaigns by DPRK IT workers and the evolving Iranian threat landscape

• Common themes in cloud compromise investigations and the evolution of data theft in SaaS environments

• The danger of unsecured government data repositories and the growing risk of infostealer malware

• Incident response metrics to benchmark agency performance, including top detection sources and initial infection vectors

• Emerging threats to Web3 and cryptocurrency impacting regulatory and law enforcement missions